A woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Long Beach, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n
The collision occurred about 7:20 p.m. Friday at Baltic Avenue and Burnett Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
The woman was walking northbound in a marked crosswalk on Baltic Avenue when she was struck by a white pickup truck traveling southbound and attempting to turn east onto Burnett, police said. The driver continued eastbound on Burnett.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Fire Department personnel took the woman to a hospital, where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n
The woman\u2019s identity was withheld pending notification of her relatives by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Her approximate age was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
Neither speed nor distracted or impaired driving appeared to be factors in the collision, according to a preliminary investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the collision was urged to call the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Dougherty at 562-570-7358. Anonymous tips may be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Long Beach, police said Saturday. The collision occurred…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,161,169,131,133,132,1557],"class_list":["post-477067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-hit-and-run","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477067","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=477067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}