{"id":72624,"date":"2025-11-27T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72624\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:05:09","slug":"pedestrian-hit-by-truck-in-long-beach-dies-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/72624\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit by truck in Long Beach dies, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 77-year-old Long Beach woman died of the injuries suffered\u00a0when she was struck by a pickup truck on Monday morning in Long Beach, Nassau County police said Thursday.<\/p>\n

A hospital physician pronounced Mary Traynor dead, police said in a news release on Thursday. Police could not immediately clarify when she died.<\/p>\n

A 49-year-old man was driving a 2020 Chevy Silverado east on East Chester Street and turned right onto Pacific Boulevard at 10:26 a.m. when, police said,\u00a0he struck the pedestrian, identified on Thursday as Traynor. She was transported to a\u00a0hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n

The driver, who\u00a0was not identified, remained at the scene, and an investigation continues.<\/p>\n

More coverage: Every 7 minutes on average a traffic crash causing death, injury or significant property damage happens on Long Island. A Newsday investigation<\/a> found that traffic crashes killed more than 2,100 people between 2014 and 2023 and seriously injured more than 16,000 people. To search for fatal crashes in your area, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Funeral arrangements for Traynor are pending with Christopher T. Jordan Funeral Home in Island Park.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/p>\n

Joe Werkmeister joined Newsday in 2022 and covers Suffolk County government and politics. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and previously worked as the editor of two North Fork community newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 77-year-old Long Beach woman died of the injuries suffered\u00a0when she was struck by a pickup truck on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23164,131,133,132,1967],"class_list":["post-72624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-dangerous-roads","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624","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=72624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}