Long Beach police sought witnesses Monday to a fatal vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash that took a child\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported at 4:39 p.m. Saturday in the area of Paramount Boulevard and 56th Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, Long Beach Fire Department personnel were already at the scene tending to the mortally injured child, who was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n
Details about the victim were not made available, although an LBPD investigator told City News Service that the child was under 10 years old.<\/p>\n
Preliminary findings by investigators revealed a 2020 Honda Civic was traveling south on Paramount Boulevard when the child ran into the street and was struck, according to a police statement.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old driver, a resident of Paramount, stopped and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Neither speed, distracted driving nor driving under the influence were believed to be factors in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hearts are with this young child\u2019s family, and everyone affected by this terrible traffic collision,\u201d LBPD Chief Wally Hebeish said. \u201cThis is a heartbreaking reminder of how quickly unexpected tragedies can occur and is a solemn reminder of the importance of doing all we can to ensure everyone\u2019s safety on our roadways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the crash was urged to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective D. Dougherty at 562-570-7355. Information can be submitted anonymously through LA Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477) or www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police sought witnesses Monday to a fatal vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash that took a child\u2019s life. The crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,3409,410,11834,131,133,132,8711,1291,9941],"class_list":["post-321541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-child","tag-fatally","tag-injured","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-running","tag-street","tag-struck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321541","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=321541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}