A search continued Tuesday for a motorist suspected of fatally injuring a bicyclist in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The rider was struck at about 2:35 a.m. Monday near Cowles Street and Santa Fe Avenue, where officers responded and found a man lying on the road, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
The man, who was in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police said he was traveling west on Cowles Street when he was struck by an unknown vehicle that turned east onto Cowles from South Santa Fe Avenue.<\/p>\n
The driver fled the scene without offering to render any assistance to the victim, police said.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s name was being withheld pending notification of relatives.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information 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 search continued Tuesday for a motorist suspected of fatally injuring a bicyclist in Long Beach. The rider…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,12897,161,1050,169,131,133,132,236,16215],"class_list":["post-389493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-bicyclist","tag-hit-and-run","tag-investigate","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-police","tag-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389493","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=389493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389493\/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=389493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}