{"id":52614,"date":"2025-11-14T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52614\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:05:10","slug":"coroner-identifies-elderly-man-killed-in-fatal-crash-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52614\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies elderly man killed in fatal crash in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH \u2013 A 66-year-old man who was killed in a collision in Long Beach was identified by county authorities Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>\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\u00a0\u00a0to a police statement. \u201cThe driver remained at the scene and was cooperative with the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speed, distracted driving and driving under the influence are not believed to have been factors in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2013 A 66-year-old man who was killed in a collision in Long Beach was identified by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8296,131,133,18201,132,15766],"class_list":{"0":"post-52614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-fatal-crash","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-mayor","12":"tag-long-beach-news","13":"tag-rex-richardson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614","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=52614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}