{"id":10693,"date":"2025-10-18T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10693\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:34:09","slug":"1-dead-after-crash-on-hwy-99-near-olive-drive-chp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10693\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after crash on Hwy 99 near Olive Drive: CHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A driver is dead after a crash on Highway 99 near Olive Drive Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers with the California Highway Patrol were dispatched to northbound Highway 99 near Golden State Avenue for the report of a single-vehicle crash just before 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigation showed a man was driving a gray 2012 Toyota Camry on northbound Highway 99 near Golden State Avenue at an unknown rate of speed and veered toward the edge of the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Toyota struck the guardrail and continued out of control and collided with the center divider, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No other passengers were in the vehicle. It is unknown if drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A crash has forced the closure of two lanes along Highway 99 near Olive Drive in Bakersfield, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash impacted traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A driver is dead after a crash on Highway 99 near Olive Drive Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,859,1825,9652,10100],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-highway-99","tag-olive-drive","tag-olive-drive-friday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}