{"id":127388,"date":"2026-01-10T00:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:55:16","slug":"bicyclist-killed-on-hwy-178-identified-as-bakersfield-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127388\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist killed on Hwy. 178 identified as Bakersfield woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The bicyclist <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/chp-at-least-one-dead-after-vehicle-pedestrian-crash-on-highway-178-union-avenue-kern-county-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who was struck and killed on Highway 178 at Union Avenue on Jan. 4<\/a> has been identified as Renessa Leanne Holguin, 44, of Bakersfield, according to the Kern County coroner. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at around 9:09 p.m. on westbound Highway 178 at the Union Avenue off-ramp. Holguin was pronounced dead shortly before 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS REPORTING:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/woman-killed-in-bicycle-crash-on-highway-178-at-union-avenue-chp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Woman killed in bicycle crash on Hwy. 178 at Union Avenue: CHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHP&#8217;s investigation revealed that Holguin was riding her bicycle west on the Union Avenue off-ramp from westbound Highway 178 when a 23-year-old man driving a 2007 Honda sedan, also westbound on Highway 178, exited onto Union Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Due to the location of the bicyclist and the lighting conditions, the Honda collided with Holguin, causing her to be ejected from her bicycle and resulting in her death. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Honda remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The bicyclist who was struck and killed on Highway 178 at Union Avenue on Jan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-127388","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\/127388","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=127388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}