2 Struck, Killed While Trying to Cross P.C.H. : Accident: A man and boy stepped in front of a vehicle against a red light, officials said. Authorities are seeking information on the victims, who were not carrying identification.

An apparent trip to the beach turned tragic Friday for a boy and a man who were struck by a car and killed while trying to cross Pacific Coast Highway against a red light, the California Highway Patrol said.

The boy, about 8 to 10 years of age, was pronounced dead at the busy intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Warner Avenue.

The man, estimated to be in his 30s, was airlifted to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where he died about five hours later, according to CHP spokesman Tim O’Toole.

Neither victim was carrying identification, O’Toole said. Authorities were trying to identify them by their fingerprints.

They were struck shortly after 12:30 p.m. by a vehicle driven by a Huntington Beach man who was questioned and released, O’Toole said.

O’Toole said the driver was traveling south on Pacific Coast Highway, approaching a green traffic signal at Warner Avenue, when the man and boy stepped in front of his car against a red light. The CHP said the driver was not at fault.

The CHP said the pair were apparently headed for the beach and had made it halfway across Pacific Coast Highway to the median. Seeing two lanes of stopped traffic ahead of them waiting to make a left turn onto Warner Avenue, the pair apparently did not realize there was an additional two lanes of oncoming traffic, according to the CHP. They were struck after they ran past the traffic stopped in the two left-turn lanes.

“They thought they could get all the way across,” O’Toole said.

Southbound traffic on Pacific Coast Highway was diverted north on Warner Avenue for most of the afternoon after the accident.

The CHP requests any witnesses to the accident to call Officer Farif Hamid at (714) 969-2527.