Light bars on an ambulance.
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A 69-year-old man died after crashing into a traffic light pole outside Recreation Park in Long Beach Saturday night, according to authorities.

Around 8 p.m., the man was in a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck headed south on Park Avenue at Seventh Street when he crashed, police said.

“Upon entering the intersection, the pickup veered to the right for (an) unknown reason and collided with a traffic signal pole on the northeast corner of the intersection,” police said in a statement.

Bystanders started CPR on the truck’s driver, and when medics arrived, they rushed him to a hospital where he died, police said.

No other cars were involved in the crash, according to the LBPD.

Authorities haven’t released the name of the man who died.

They asked anyone with more details about the crash to call Det. Sirilio Garcia at 562-570-7355.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.