{"id":137572,"date":"2026-01-17T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:26:10","slug":"semi-trailer-crash-fire-leads-to-lane-closures-on-i-5-near-hwy-46-chp-caltrans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137572\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-trailer crash, fire leads to lane closures on I-5 near Hwy. 46: CHP, Caltrans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A semi-trailer was struck by another vehicle, causing it to catch fire and delay traffic on southbound I-5, just north of Highway 46, on Friday night, according to California Highway Patrol (CHP) and Caltrans.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is not confirmed, but CHP&#8217;s website reported that the vehicle that collided with the semi-trailer was swerving before the rear-end collision occurred, just before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when the affected area will reopen to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For updates, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/quickmap.dot.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">quickmap.dot.ca.gov<\/a> (Caltrans).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A semi-trailer was struck by another vehicle, causing it to catch fire and delay traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-137572","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\/137572","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=137572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}