{"id":147779,"date":"2026-01-24T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147779\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:28:25","slug":"40-year-old-man-struck-killed-by-train-in-shafter-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147779\/","title":{"rendered":"40-year-old man struck, killed by train in Shafter: coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 40-year-old man who was struck and killed by a train in the Shafter area on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was identified as Gerardo Becerra Perez, 40, of Shafter. Perez was found in the area of South Beech and East Los Angeles avenues at Mile Post 904.3, according to coroner officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/man-electric-wheelchair-dead-crash-194435629.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Man in electric wheelchair dead after crash in Lake Isabella: CHP;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Man in electric wheelchair dead after crash in Lake Isabella: CHP <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was found just after 9:30 a.m. BNSF is investigating this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">17 News has contacted BNSF for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 40-year-old man who was struck and killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,71314,73396,328,953],"class_list":["post-147779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bnsf","tag-gerardo-becerra-perez","tag-kget","tag-shafter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147779","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=147779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}