A man was fatally injured Tuesday after losing control of a motorized scooter and crashing in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The collision was reported at 8:35 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Seventh Street and Orizaba Avenue, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police said the responding officers located a man who had fallen off a motorized scooter and was receiving medical aid from Long Beach Fire Department personnel. He was later taken to a hospital, where he died as a result of his injuries.<\/p>\n
Detectives determined after investigating that the man was traveling westbound on Seventh Street on the north sidewalk toward Orizaba Avenue when he lost control and fell off the scooter.<\/p>\n
Speed, drugs and alcohol were not determining factors leading to the fatal crash, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s name was being withheld pending notification of relatives.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the investigation was urged to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was fatally injured Tuesday after losing control of a motorized scooter and crashing in Long Beach.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,410,11834,131,133,132,819,32239],"class_list":["post-325922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-fatally","tag-injured","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-motorized","tag-scooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922","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=325922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}