Authorities Tuesday identified a 64-year-old man who was in a wheelchair when he was fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Charles Norman suffered traumatic injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash around 12:35 a.m. on Sept. 18, at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Seventh Street, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The driver suspected of hitting him, 23-year-old Ethan Chung of Irvine, was arrested about five blocks away.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police a white BMW sedan traveling south on PCH struck the victim as he crossed at Seventh Street, Long Beach Police Department Lt. Eric Golz said.<\/p>\n
Responding police officers performed CPR on the victim until personnel from the Long Beach Fire Department arrived and attempted life-saving measures, Golz said.<\/p>\n
Video from the scene showed the unresponsive victim near a mangled and bloody wheelchair in the street as another man, with white hair and a white beard, was being loaded into an ambulance while receiving oxygen.<\/p>\n
Chung was located along with a 2021 BMW at Second Street and PCH. He was booked into the Long Beach City Jail on $50,000 bail on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter. He was released the same day after posting bond, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department records.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation revealed the pedestrian was in a wheelchair and traveling eastbound across Pacific Coast Highway at East 7th Street in a marked crosswalk\u201d when he was hit by the southbound BMW, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe BMW came to a stop, then drove away from the scene without rendering aid to the victim,\u201d according to a police statement.<\/p>\n
Speed, distracted driving and impaired driving do not appear to be factors in the collision, which remains under investigation, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the crash was urged to call Detective Ashley Van Holland of the LBPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355. Anonymous tips can be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or visiting www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities Tuesday identified a 64-year-old man who was in a wheelchair when he was fatally injured in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,161,5249,169,131,133,132,3411,6850],"class_list":["post-484289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-hit-and-run","tag-identified","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-user","tag-wheelchair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484289","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=484289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}