A man killed in a two-vehicle crash in the Alamitos Heights community of Long Beach a week ago was publicly identified Saturday.<\/p>\n
Robert Fairbanks, 44, died from blunt trauma in the accident, the Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office said. His city of residence was not released.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at about 10:30 p.m. Aug. 22 in the 5700 block of Pacific Coast Highway, near Bellflower Boulevard, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
A 2026 Tesla was going westbound on PCH at a high rate of speed when it struck a 2025 Volkswagen that was exiting a shopping center, according to the preliminary investigation. The Tesla then jumped the curb and struck a cinder block wall, causing additional damage to several parked vehicles. The Volkswagen struck a sign, police said.<\/p>\n
The Volkswagen\u2019s 48-year-old female driver and 43-year-old female passenger were also taken to hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Speed and impaired driving appeared to be contributing factors in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the collision was urged to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Dougherty at 562-570-7355.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man killed in a two-vehicle crash in the Alamitos Heights community of Long Beach a week ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,33174,169,131,133,132,58645],"class_list":["post-447591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-idd","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-two-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447591","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=447591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}