{"id":49999,"date":"2025-11-12T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:40:09","slug":"teen-killed-by-distracted-driver-while-walking-in-long-beach-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49999\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen killed by distracted driver while walking in Long Beach parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH \u2013 A 19-year-old woman walking in a parking lot was struck and killed by a compact luxury car, the Long Beach Police Department announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred just before 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 on the 2200 block of Bellflower Boulevard, near Stearns Street, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Edwards, of Long Beach, was struck by a 2015 Lexus IS250 as its 39-year-old driver attempted to exit a parking stall, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Fire Department personnel rendered medical aid to Edwards and took her to a hospital in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were notified on Thursday that Edwards had died from her injuries the day before, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, also a Long Beach resident, remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Distracted driving was believed to be a factor in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2013 A 19-year-old woman walking in a parking lot was struck and killed by a compact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32364,8296,131,133,18201,132,19187],"class_list":{"0":"post-49999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-distracted-driver","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-long-beach","11":"tag-long-beach-headlines","12":"tag-long-beach-mayor","13":"tag-long-beach-news","14":"tag-mayor-rex-richardson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49999","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=49999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}