{"id":110055,"date":"2025-12-26T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110055\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:45:10","slug":"coroner-identifies-driver-killed-after-crash-with-semi-truck-on-highway-58-near-mojave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110055\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies driver killed after crash with semi-truck on Highway 58 near Mojave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/chp-fatal-crash-on-hwy-58-near-mojave-involves-wrong-way-driver-jackknifed-semi-truck-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> driver who died after a crash on Highway 58<\/a> near Mojave as 50-year-old George Donald Fintikakis of Ridgecrest.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/chp-fatal-crash-on-hwy-58-near-mojave-involves-wrong-way-driver-jackknifed-semi-truck-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CHP: Fatal crash on Hwy. 58 near Mojave involves wrong-way driver &amp; jackknifed semi-truck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CHP\u2019s website said on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at around 8 p.m., there was a report of a vehicle driving the wrong way on Highway 58 near Exit 172 in Mojave.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CHP\u2019s website, the vehicle was then driving in the correct direction and swearing in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>A crash then occurred. The website said a semi-truck jackknifed, and 170 diesel was about to go into the waterway.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said Fintikakis was a driver of a vehicle who collided with a semi-truck. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a driver who died after a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-110055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110055","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=110055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}