A 48-year-old woman who was fatally struck while lying in a street in Long Beach was identified Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The fatal crash was reported at about 10:50 p.m. Monday in the area of Pacific Avenue and Sixth Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived on scene to find the victim with injuries to her upper body lying in the roadway, police said. Long Beach Fire Department personnel responded and pronounced her dead.<\/p>\n
She identified Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner as Kellee Devers, who sustained blunt traumatic injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation revealed a 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, driven by a 25-year-old resident of Long Beach, was traveling northbound on Pacific Avenue when it struck the pedestrian, who was lying in the roadway for unknown reasons,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cThe driver of the Tahoe immediately stopped and called 911.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman who was driving the vehicle cooperated with investigators, police said.<\/p>\n
Authorities determined that neither speed nor impaired driving were factors in the collision.<\/p>\n
Pacific Avenue from Sixth Street to Seventh Street was closed as officers investigated the collision.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the crash was urged to call 562-570-7132 to speak with LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Joseph Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old woman who was fatally struck while lying in a street in Long Beach was identified Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,8197,5249,169,131,133,132,34740,21003,1557],"class_list":["post-474246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-collision","tag-identified","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-lying","tag-roadway","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474246","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=474246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}