Cyclist struck by car

Kris Gainey/Daily Forty-Niner Long Beach paramedics strap cyclist Brian Carlon to a stretcher after  a  car struck him on Lower Campus late Wednesday afternoon.

A female, 17,  in a red Nissan Sentra hit Brian Carlon, 44, around 3:20 p.m. as he crossed Earl Warren Drive, said Officer Mike Whitcomb of the Long Beach Police Department.

While driving westbound on Atherton, the Los Alamitos resident was making a left onto Earl Warren Drive and then struck the cyclist, Whitcomb said.

He was taken by ambulance to Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Whitcomb said. Carlon was treated and released for minor lacerations, said Terri Starkman, a spokesperson for the hospital.