BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office released the cause of death for a man who died after crashing his vehicle into parked cars at a hotel parking lot as “cardiomegaly of undetermined etiology.”
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 4:53 a.m., officers were called to the 3800 block of Marriott Drive regarding a single vehicle versus parked vehicles.
When officers arrived, they found the vehicle fully engulfed and the driver still in the driver’s seat.
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The Bakersfield Fire Department responded, extinguished the fire, and pronounced the driver dead at the scene.
A driver died after their vehicle crashed into parked cars, caught fire, and was fully engulfed early Tuesday morning at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Bakersfield. PHOTO: KBAK/KBFX
The driver was identified as 45-year-old Omar Marlyn Archie of West Jordan, Utah.
The cause of death was determined to be “cardiomegaly of undetermined etiology and other significant conditions were soot inhalation.”