A 66-year-old man who was killed in a collision in Long Beach was identified by county authorities Thursday.<\/p>\n
The victim, identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s office as John Leuders, was hit by a car around 9:05 p.m. Sunday as he crossed Wardlow Road near Norwalk Boulevard, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived at the location, Long Beach Fire Department personnel were treating Leuders before taking him to a hospital, where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates a white Honda CR-V, driven by a 56-year-old female resident of Garden Grove, was traveling eastbound on Wardlow Road when it struck the pedestrian who was in the roadway outside of any crosswalk,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cThe driver remained at the scene and was cooperative with the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speed, distracted driving and driving under the influence are not believed to have been factors in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash was urged to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7355. Anonymous tips can be submitted through Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or visiting www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old man who was killed in a collision in Long Beach was identified by county authorities Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,8197,5249,169,131,133,132,984],"class_list":["post-51314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-collision","tag-identified","tag-killed","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51314","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=51314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}