{"id":150574,"date":"2026-01-26T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:01:33","slug":"woman-struck-and-killed-by-car-while-lying-on-roadway-near-arvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150574\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman struck and killed by car while lying on roadway near Arvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A woman died after CHP says she was lying on the roadway when she was struck by a car on North Rancho Drive, south of Arvin, early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on Monday, January 26, 2026, at around 4:52 a.m., officers were called to the area of N. Rancho Drive and Rancho Road, for a report of a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that a 23-year-old man was driving a 2010 Honda Civic southbound on N. Rancho Drive, south of Rancho Road. For reasons still under investigation, a 21-year-old woman was lying on the roadway of N. Rancho Drive.<\/p>\n<p>According to CHP, the driver of the Honda was unable to take evasive action and struck the woman, causing severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical personnel responded to the scene and pronounced the woman dead.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said the driver of the Honda remained on scene and was cooperative with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>N. Rancho Drive was closed for about two and a half hours between David Road and Rancho Road for the completion of the crash investigation.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said alcohol and\/or drugs were not a factor for the driver; however, it is unknown if alcohol and\/or drugs are a factor for the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to call the CHP Bakersfield Area Office at (661)396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A woman died after CHP says she was lying on the roadway when she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-150574","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\/150574","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=150574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}