LONG BEACH \u2013 Police are investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a driver in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The man was hit by a car around 9:05 p.m. Saturday as he crossed Wardlow Road near Norwalk Boulevard, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived at the location, Long Beach Fire Department personnel were treating the man before taking him to a hospital, where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s identity was withheld pending notification of his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates a white Honda CR-V, driven by a 56-year-old female resident of Garden Grove, was traveling eastbound on Wardlow Road when it struck the pedestrian who was in the roadway outside of any crosswalk,\u201d according\u00a0\u00a0to a police statement. \u201cThe driver remained at the scene and was cooperative with the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speed, distracted driving and driving under the influence are not believed to have been factors in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash was urged to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355. Anonymous tips can be submitted through Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or visiting www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2013 Police are investigating the death of a pedestrian who was struck by a driver in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8296,131,133,18201,132,867,15766],"class_list":["post-47441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-fatal-crash","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-mayor","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-police-department","tag-rex-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47441","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=47441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}