LONG BEACH \u2013 A 60-year-old man who died two days after being struck by a Long Beach Transit bus was identified by county authorities Thursday.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office as William Gallagher of Los Angeles, was struck at about 1:05 p.m. July 21 in the 400 block of Golden Shore.<\/p>\n
According to the Long Beach Police Department, the bus was making a left turn onto an access road when it struck Gallagher as he was crossing the street.<\/p>\n
Several good Samaritans rushed to assist the man until the arrival of Long Beach Fire Department paramedics, who took him to a hospital in critical condition, police said. The man died at the hospital on July 23.<\/p>\n
The bus driver cooperated with detectives. Police said speed was not believed to be a factor in the fatal crash, nor were distracted or impaired driving.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the crash was urged to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7358. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestopper.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2013 A 60-year-old man who died two days after being struck by a Long Beach Transit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12119,131,133,132,167374],"class_list":["post-418495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crime-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418495","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=418495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}