LONG BEACH – Authorities Monday were investigating after a crash in a Long Beach intersection killed two people and sent three to hospitals.
The crash was reported at 10:15 p.m. Sunday at Sixth Street and Atlantic Avenue, according to Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Dennis Garrett.
“Preliminary investigation suggests the suspect vehicle was traveling eastbound on Sixth Street at a high rate of speed and collided with two vehicles traveling southbound on Atlantic Avenue,” Vargas said.
The person driving the suspect vehicle fled the scene before officers arrived, he said.
A man and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene, Vargas said. Three other adult victims were taken by ambulance to a hospital with non-life- threatening injuries.
One of the vehicles was overturned in the crash. It was not the suspect’s vehicle, he said.
