{"id":345888,"date":"2026-06-04T03:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345888\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:14:15","slug":"woman-killed-in-crash-while-crossing-pch-long-beach-police-say-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345888\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in crash while crossing PCH, Long Beach police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a woman was killed by a car early this morning while crossing against a red light on Pacific Coast Highway in the Washington neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at about 4:50 a.m. at the intersection of PCH and Pacific Avenue, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n<p>They said a 2019 Chevrolet sedan was heading westbound on PCH through a green light when it struck a woman who was crossing southbound in the east crosswalk of PCH, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to a hospital where she died, police said. Her name and age were withheld pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p>The Chevrolet driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Police do not believe distracted driving, impaired driving or excessive speed were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The death is the city\u2019s 25th traffic-related fatality of the year and 21st fatal traffic collision. Last year, the city <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/long-beach-traffic-deaths-most-decade-vision-zero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had 53 fatal traffic collisions<\/a> \u2014 its highest tally in more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a woman was killed by a car early this morning while crossing against a red light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-345888","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\/345888","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=345888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}