A pedestrian was killed in Long Beach when he was struck by three vehicles, all of them driven by people who did not stop, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The fatality occurred at about 11:40 p.m. Monday in the area of Ocean Boulevard and Golden Shore, according to Long Beach Police Department Lt. Benjamin Vargas.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Fire Department firefighters pronounced the man dead at the scene, Vargas said. His name was not released pending positive identification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates an unknown black vehicle was traveling eastbound in the number two lane on Ocean Boulevard just west of Golden Avenue when it struck a pedestrian who was crossing northbound outside of a crosswalk,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
The black vehicle was last seen headed eastbound on Ocean Boulevard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pedestrian was struck again by a white truck and a third time by a red sedan,\u201d police said. \u201cNeither vehicle stayed on scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision was urged to contact LBPD Detective Ashley Van Holland at 562-570-7355. Anonymous tips may be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or visiting LACrimeStoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed in Long Beach when he was struck by three vehicles, all of them driven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,30019,2790,3606,161,131,133,132,50334],"class_list":["post-398301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-dead","tag-drivers","tag-hit-and-run","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-pronounced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398301","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=398301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398301\/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=398301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}