{"id":501869,"date":"2026-10-20T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501869\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:50:21","slug":"two-teenagers-killed-in-separate-traffic-collisions-in-long-beach-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501869\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers killed in separate traffic collisions in Long Beach \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say two teenagers were killed in separate crashes over the weekend, one in downtown Long Beach and the other near El Dorado Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first crash happened at about 10:08 p.m. Friday on Shoreline Drive just south of Ocean Boulevard, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities said a 16-year-old boy ran across lanes on Shoreline Drive near the access road to the Alamitos Beach parking lot and was struck by a 2026 Honda sedan, police said. He was identified as Carlos Estrada of Buena Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Honda driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators, police said, adding that speed, distracted driving, and impaired driving were not believed to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second crash happened at about 6:53 p.m. on Spring Street and Karen Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities said a 19-year-old man was riding a dirt bike westbound on Spring Street when a 2012 Lincoln SUV made a left turn in front of him, causing the rider to crash into the SUV. He was identified as Landen Lightfoot, of Lomita.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SUV driver remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators, who were looking into whether one of the vehicles was speeding prior to the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long Beach has recorded 40 fatal crashes so far this year. That\u2019s more than double the number of homicides. Long Beach is battling <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/long-beach-traffic-deaths-most-decade-vision-zero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a stubborn rise in traffic deaths<\/a>, which hit their highest total in more than 10 years in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say two teenagers were killed in separate crashes over the weekend, one in downtown Long Beach and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-501869","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\/501869","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=501869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}