A 24-year-old man killed during a fiery, single-vehicle crash on a freeway transition road in Long Beach was identified Monday.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at 3:55 a.m. Saturday on a transition road connecting the northbound San Diego (405) Freeway to the southbound Long Beach (710) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
The vehicle struck a center divider, overturned and caught fire, the CHP said.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
He was identified Monday by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner as Ricardo Hernandez, who sustained multiple blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n
A Sigalert issued at 4:19 a.m. closing the transition road was canceled at 7:44 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man killed during a fiery, single-vehicle crash on a freeway transition road in Long Beach was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,116417,5154,5249,169,131,133,132,14310,51512],"class_list":["post-424334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-fiery","tag-freeway","tag-identified","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-road","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424334","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=424334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}