{"id":468115,"date":"2026-09-18T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468115\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:22:09","slug":"man-in-wheelchair-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468115\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in wheelchair dies after being hit by car in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in a wheelchair is dead after being hit by a car in Long Beach on Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach Police Department said officers responded to the intersection of Seventh Street and Pacific Coast Highway around 12:35 a.m. after receiving reports of a hit-and-run crash. <\/p>\n<p>Responding officers found a pedestrian who had been hit and was suffering from traumatic injuries to his upper body. Long Beach paramedics treated the man, but he was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect vehicle, a white sedan, was last seen fleeing southbound on PCH. <\/p>\n<p>Officers in the area located and detained the suspect vehicle near the intersection of Second Street and PCH. Police are still investigating what led to the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in a wheelchair is dead after being hit by a car in Long Beach on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-468115","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\/468115","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=468115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}