On Dec. 22, 2020 at approximately 8:20 a.m., officers were dispatched to a vehicle versus pedestrian traffic collision at Pacific Coast Highway and Harbor Avenue, which resulted in the death of a male adult.
Upon arrival, officers discovered an unconscious male pedestrian on the roadway suffering from serious injuries. Officers began life-saving measures until personnel from the Long Beach Fire Department arrived and continued to administer life saving measures. Long Beach Fire personnel then transported the victim to a local hospital.
The preliminary investigation found that the driver of a blue Honda Civic failed to yield for the pedestrian as he was crossing Pacific Coast Highway in a marked crosswalk. The driver failed to stop and continued eastbound on Pacific Coast Highway.
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He was identified as James Herbert Lee Jones, from Long Beach, police said.
Jones was hit on Dec. 22 just before 8:20 a.m. on PCH and Harbor Avenue in West Long Beach. When officers first got arrived, Jones was in the roadway with serious injuries. Paramedics took him to a local hospital, where he later died.
“The preliminary investigation found that the driver of a blue Honda Civic failed to yield for the pedestrian as he was crossing Pacific Coast Highway in a marked crosswalk,” police said. “The driver failed to stop and continued eastbound on Pacific Coast Highway.”
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Police were first called to the area of Judson Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway at about 8 a.m. There they found the victim, a pedestrian, with serious injuries. Paramedics treated the victim and took him to a local hospital in stable, but critical condition, police said.
The driver, a 36-year-old Long Beach woman, was traveling eastbound on Pacific Coast Highway in a Dodge when she hit the victim, who was in the roadway outside of a crosswalk, police said. She has a valid driver’s license and was not impaired or distracted during the crash, police said, and was released at the scene after cooperating with officers.