{"id":484736,"date":"2026-10-04T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:40:25","slug":"man-in-wheelchair-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-pickup-truck-long-beach-police-say-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484736\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in wheelchair hospitalized after being hit by pickup truck, Long Beach police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A driver in a pickup truck hit a man in a wheelchair crossing the street last night, leaving him critically injured, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collision happened in the 3700 block of Locust Avenue, near Bixby Road, at about 9:40 p.m. Monday. The man in the wheelchair was struck by a southbound vehicle while crossing the street outside of a crosswalk, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver of the pickup truck stopped as required and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the second serious crash involving someone in a wheelchair in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 64-year-old man in a wheelchair <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/crime\/man-with-wheelchair-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-on-pch-long-beach-police-say?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Today%27s%20Headlines%209%2F18%2F26&amp;utm_source=44&amp;utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Will%20you%20speak%20up%20for%20your%20community%3F&amp;utm_campaign=Test%20for%20Today%20s%20Headlines%209%2F18%2F26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was fatally injured in a hit-and-run crash<\/a> 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long Beach has been struggling to reduce traffic deaths and other serious crashes over the past few years. Last year, there were 53 fatal wrecks in Long Beach, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/long-beach-traffic-deaths-most-decade-vision-zero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most in more than a decade<\/a>. There have been 37 so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver in a pickup truck hit a man in a wheelchair crossing the street last night, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-484736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484736","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=484736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}