BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified a motorcyclist who died after a crash on Highway 178 as 55-year-old Christopher Daniel Bermudez of Ridgecrest.

The coroner’s report said on September 13, at around 7:30 p.m., Bermudez was riding a motorcycle that collided with a vehicle on Highway 178 and Pinto Street in China Lake Acres.

The report said Bermudez died at the scene.