A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Tuesday morning in the Cambodia Town community of Long Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched at about 5:40 a.m. Tuesday to the area of Anaheim Street and Junipero Avenue regarding an injury traffic collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
Paramedics rushed the pedestrian to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with officers, the Long Beach Police Department reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cA male adult pedestrian was walking southbound in a marked crosswalk on Junipero Avenue across Anaheim Street,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cWhile the pedestrian was walking, a 2010 Toyota Prius was traveling eastbound in the number one lane and struck the pedestrian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speed, distracted driving, and impaired driving do not appear to be factors in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the crash was urged to call the LBPD at 562-570-5520. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Tuesday morning in the Cambodia Town community of Long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,169,131,133,132,984,178],"class_list":["post-489058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489058","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=489058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}