An investigation was underway in Long Beach Tuesday into a crash involving a pickup truck and a pedestrian in a wheelchair who was left in critical condition, 10 days after another wheelchair user was struck and killed by a vehicle in the city.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to the 3700 block of Locust Avenue, near Bixby Road, at about 9:40 p.m. Monday regarding an injury traffic collision. They learned a man in a wheelchair had been struck by a southbound vehicle while crossing the street outside of a crosswalk, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Fire Department personnel took the man to a hospital, where he was listed as in critical but stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup truck stopped as required and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n
A 64-year-old man who was in a wheelchair was fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash in Long Beach on Sept. 18. The 23-year-old driver in that case was arrested several blocks from the crash scene and booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Impaired driving and distracted driving did not appear to be factors in either crash, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the crashes was urged to call the LBPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation was underway in Long Beach Tuesday into a crash involving a pickup truck and a pedestrian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[48072,174,350,11834,131,133,132,984,6850],"class_list":["post-479745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-another","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-injured","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-wheelchair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479745","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=479745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}