{"id":112911,"date":"2025-12-30T00:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:11:33","slug":"man-dead-after-being-struck-twice-on-hwy-99-south-of-taft-hwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112911\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after being struck twice on Hwy 99 south of Taft Hwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A man is dead Monday after being struck two different times on southbound Highway 99 near Taft Highway, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said a man was walking in the third lane of southbound Highway 99, south of Taft Highway just after 2:30 a.m. when an unknown vehicle struck him then fled the scene immediately after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly after, an additional car driving southbound on Highway 99 struck the man lying in the third lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the second car, a Honda, stayed at the scene and cooperated with law enforcement, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is unknown if either drugs and or alcohol were factors in the crash.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 man is dead Monday after being struck two different times on southbound Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,859,1825,44459,60632],"class_list":["post-112911","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-southbound-highway-99","tag-taft-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112911","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=112911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}