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Huntington Beach police officer fatally strikes pedestrian with patrol vehicle

A 45-year-old man is dead after he was struck by a Huntington Beach Police Department vehicle Saturday morning.

The unidentified man was near the intersection of North Pacific Avenue and Broadway at about 5:35 a.m. when he was hit by a HBPD Ford Explorer that was responding to a radio call, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.

A Huntington Beach police SUV struck and killed a Rancho Palos Verdes man in Sunset Beach while responding to a call for service early Saturday.

The crash happened at about 5:30 a.m. on North Pacific Avenue, near Broadway, California Highway Patrol officials said in a news release. A pedestrian was hit and later pronounced dead at a hospital. He was identified as Derrick Deon Flanders, 45, of Rancho Palos Verdes by Orange County Coroner’s officials.