BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK/KBFX) — The Lamont man killed in a solo rollover crash near Taft on March 19 has been identified as 30-year-old Benocio Callejas Marco.
The Kern County coroner said Marcos was driving on Elk Hills Road at about 1:50 a.m. when the vehicle left the road and flipped over. He died at the scene.
The California Highway Patrol said that on Thursday, March 19, 2026, at about 2:02 a.m., the CHP Bakersfield Communications Center received a report of a solo-vehicle crash on Elk Hills Road, north of Valley West Road.
CHP said Marcos was driving a 2013 Toyota Corolla southbound on Elk Hills Road, north of Valley West Road, when the car left the road onto the east shoulder, flipped over, and came to rest on its left side.
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Officials said the driver was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was in the vehicle.