A woman was struck by a vehicle and killed Wednesday as she walked in a Long Beach crosswalk against a red light, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The crash was reported at about 4:50 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Pacific Coast Highway and Pacific Avenue, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police said the woman was walking southbound in the east crosswalk of PCH against a red light when she was hit by a Chevrolet Malibu sedan being driven west on PCH by a 19-year-old Long Beach resident, who stopped as required and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, impaired driving, distracted driving and excessive speed are not believed to be a factor in this collision,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the fatal crash was urged to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355 to speak with Detective David Dougherty.<\/p>\n
Anonymous tips can be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or lacrimestoppers.org\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was struck by a vehicle and killed Wednesday as she walked in a Long Beach crosswalk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,9940,169,131,133,132,1291,9941,9942,1557],"class_list":["post-345381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crossing","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-street","tag-struck","tag-while","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345381","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=345381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}