A 23-year-old motorcyclist who was killed in a crash in Long Beach was identified by county authorities Monday.<\/p>\n
The wreck was reported at about 1:45 a.m. Thursday in the area of Atlantic Avenue and Villa Park, where a motorcycle and an SUV collided, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
The motorcyclist, later identified as Juan Lepe, whose place of residence was not released, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The SUV driver was also taken to a hospital and reported to have stable vital signs.<\/p>\n
Police say the SUV was making a left turn from Villa Park onto northbound Atlantic on a green light. The Honda motorcycle operator is alleged to have run a red light while heading south on Atlantic when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeed is being investigated as a potential factor in this investigation,\u201d according to a police statement.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the collision was urged to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Johnson at 562-570-7132.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old motorcyclist who was killed in a crash in Long Beach was identified by county authorities Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,5249,169,131,133,132,17410],"class_list":["post-465183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-identified","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-motorcyclist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465183","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=465183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}