‘It should have never happened’: Family grieves 7-year-old killed while crossing street with father
“All I could do was hold him in my arms and tell him, ‘My baby, my baby,'” the boy’s father, Francisco Garate said Wednesday.
“All I could do was hold him in my arms and tell him, ‘My baby, my baby,'” the boy’s father, Francisco Garate said Wednesday.
Police said the father and son were in a crosswalk with the right-of-way when the driver of a pickup truck failed to yield.
Bystanders at the scene rendered aid to the man before police and Long Beach Fire Department personnel arrived to take over, the LBPD said.
91-year-old Long Beach resident Song Srun was walking across a woman’s driveway in North Long Beach and was hit as she was backing out, police say.
The driver—who has since been arrested—hit the back of another vehicle, which ended up on its roof in a flood-control channel, according to police.
The 32-year-old rider lost control of his motorcycle on Studebaker Road, hit the center median and then collided with the concrete barrier over a portion of the Los Cerritos Channel, police said.
The traffic collision occurred around 6:04 a.m. Wednesday, April 13 in the area of Seventh Street and Pepper Tree Lane, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement today.
Police say the pedestrian was walking northbound, outside of the crosswalk, when the driver, who was traveling westbound on PCH, struck him.
Police said the man was riding his motorcycle westbound on Seventh Street when a driver crashed into him while turning onto Magnolia Avenue.
When officers arrived, they found the man pinned under the 17-year-old’s car, LBPD said.