{"id":437157,"date":"2026-08-19T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:16:09","slug":"1-pedestrian-killed-another-severely-injured-by-south-la-hit-and-run-driver-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437157\/","title":{"rendered":"1 pedestrian killed, another severely injured by South LA hit-and-run driver, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One pedestrian was killed and another was severely injured during a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles on Monday, according to Los Angeles police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/2089775170131198453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">news release<\/a>, LAPD officers said the crash near the intersection of Western Avenue and 56th Street happened at around 11 p.m., when an &#8220;unknown light-colored sedan traveling northbound on Western Avenue collided into two pedestrians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both of the victims, neither of whom has been identified, were taken to a nearby hospital, where one succumbed to their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled from the area still heading north on Western, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the LAPD&#8217;s news release, a standing reward of up to $50,000 is offered for anyone with information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with additional information was asked to contact South Traffic Division Officer Hurd at 213-321-9681.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One pedestrian was killed and another was severely injured during a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-437157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437157","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=437157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}