{"id":319575,"date":"2026-05-17T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:58:08","slug":"woman-killed-in-santa-monica-after-crawling-under-metro-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319575\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Santa Monica after crawling under Metro bus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A woman was killed after crawling under a stopped Metro bus in Santa Monica on Friday afternoon, local investigators said. <\/p>\n

Early findings from the Santa Monica Police Department<\/a> say the woman suffered fatal injuries as the bus pulled away from its stop at Main Street and Ocean Park Boulevard. <\/p>\n

The Santa Monica Police Department and Santa Monica Fire Department responded to a collision around 2 p.m. on Friday involving a pedestrian and a bus. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n

Investigators believe the woman was homeless, according to Lt. Lewis Gilmore of the Santa Monica police.<\/p>\n

At this point in the investigation, there is no sign the bus operator was impaired or distracted, police said. <\/p>\n

According to a release<\/a> from Santa Monica officials on Friday morning, security footage from a nearby business captured the woman moving underneath the Metro bus prior to the accident.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreliminary investigation indicates the Metro bus<\/a> was stopped when the pedestrian moved underneath,\u201d the release said. \u201cAs the bus pulled away from the stop, the pedestrian was struck and sustained fatal injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Metro bus operator remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators following the incident, officials said. The bus was traveling westbound on the 33 Line at the time. <\/p>\n

Main Street was closed between Ocean Park Boulevard and Hollister Avenue, disrupting traffic for several hours during the investigation. The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was killed after crawling under a stopped Metro bus in Santa Monica on Friday afternoon, local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133386,7,9,8,133387,29582,31336,348,133384,8729,97871,133385,984,5274,8267,2489,18915,1557],"class_list":["post-319575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bus-operator","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fatal-injury","tag-friday-afternoon","tag-friday-morning","tag-investigation","tag-local-investigator","tag-main-street","tag-metro-bus","tag-ocean-park-boulevard","tag-pedestrian","tag-release","tag-santa-monica","tag-scene","tag-stop","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319575","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=319575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}