{"id":466161,"date":"2026-09-17T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:28:08","slug":"teen-driver-detained-after-seriously-hurting-12-year-old-outside-poly-high-police-say-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466161\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen driver detained after seriously hurting 12-year-old outside Poly High, police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say a 16-year-old driver struck and seriously injured a 12-year-old boy who was crossing the street this morning outside of Poly High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crash happened at about 8:16 a.m. on Atlantic Avenue near 15th Street, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A teenage driver lost control of a car while trying to steer around a stopped vehicle and struck the boy who was attempting to cross the street, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said officers responded to the scene and detained the teenage driver, who they alleged was driving without a license. The driver was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver\u2019s name was withheld because he is a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editor\u2019s note: This story was updated with the boys\u2019 ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 16-year-old driver struck and seriously injured a 12-year-old boy who was crossing the street this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-466161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466161","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=466161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}