{"id":251359,"date":"2026-04-04T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251359\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:22:23","slug":"long-beach-police-ask-for-help-finding-hit-and-run-driver-who-struck-and-killed-woman-crossing-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251359\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach police ask for help finding hit-and-run driver who struck and killed woman crossing street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach police are asking for help finding the hit-and-run driver who allegedly struck and killed a woman while she was crossing the street over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around 4 a.m. on Sunday near Ninth Street and Fashion Avenue, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality--9th-street-and-fashion-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> from the Long Beach Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who hasn&#8217;t yet been publicly identified, was rushed to a nearby hospital by Long Beach Fire Department paramedics. She was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The preliminary investigation indicates a white Toyota Tacoma was traveling westbound on Ninth Street when it struck a pedestrian in the roadway outside of a crosswalk,&#8221; LBPD&#8217;s release said. &#8220;The Toyota Tacoma fled the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As they continue their investigation, detectives ask anyone who may know more to contact them at (562) 570-7355.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police are asking for help finding the hit-and-run driver who allegedly struck and killed a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-251359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}