CA Journalist Sean Belk ID’d As Victim In Friday Fatal Long Beach Two-Vehicle Crash

LONG BEACH, CA. (THECOUNT) — Sean Belk has been identified as the victim in a two-vehicle crash in the Bluff Heights area of Long Beach, California, on Friday.

Belk, 36, a local Long Beach reporter, was killed Friday night near the intersection of Broadway Street and Obispo Avenue in Bluff Heights, according to reports.

Officers responded to the scene shortly after 8:30 p.m. and found two vehicles involved in a head-on collision, officials said.

Belk was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead of multiple blunt force trauma injuries.

The driver of the other vehicle remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, police said.

There was no indication drugs or alcohol played a factor in the crash.

Belk wrote for the bi-weekly Beachcomber newspaper since 2016, his publisher, Jay Beeler, said Saturday.

“Sean Belk was a master of his craft and will be greatly missed by all of us on the Beachcomber team,” said Beeler, who added that Belk received his associate’s degree from Long Beach City College in 2005, followed by a bachelor’s degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton in 2009. source

Beeler said that at the time of his death, Belk was working on a story about the former Boeing C-17 assembly facility for the paper’s Jan. 18 edition.

Belk is survived by his parents and two younger brothers, according to the Beachcomber.

Anyone with possible information on the crash may contact police at 911.

Bluff Heights is a neighborhood in Long Beach, CA composed mainly of Craftsman bungalows constructed from approximately 1910 to 1923, source Wikipedia.