{"id":69267,"date":"2025-11-25T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69267\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:17:07","slug":"driver-61-killed-in-long-beach-pileup-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69267\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver, 61, Killed In Long Beach Pileup Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A motorist who was killed when his speeding vehicle rear-ended a Jeep Cherokee in Long Beach was identified by the Los Angeles County medical examiner&#8217;s office Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at about 7 p.m. Saturday in the area of Long Beach Boulevard and East San Antonio Drive, according to the Long Beach Police Department. A speeding 2005 Nissan Altima going northbound on Long Beach Boulevard rear-ended a 2018 Jeep Cherokee, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The collision caused the Jeep Cherokee to travel through the pedestrian sidewalk, strike a fire hydrant, and subsequently collide into a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban in a parking lot,&#8221; according to a police statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arriving at the scene located a man inside the Altima. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner identified him as Reginald Craig, 61, whose place of residence was not listed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drivers of the Jeep Cherokee and Chevrolet Suburban remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation,&#8221; according to the police statement. &#8220;At this time, speed and impaired driving are being investigated as factors in this collision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the crash was asked to call the LBPD at 562-570-7355. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A motorist who was killed when his speeding vehicle rear-ended a Jeep Cherokee in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-69267","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\/69267","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=69267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}