{"id":152561,"date":"2026-01-28T01:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:50:52","slug":"car-hits-power-pole-on-hwy-58-43-roundabout-nearly-400-pge-customers-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152561\/","title":{"rendered":"Car hits power pole on Hwy 58-43 roundabout, nearly 400 PG&E customers without power"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vehicle struck a power pole near the roundabout at the intersection of Highway 58 and Highway 43 on Tuesday afternoon, closing both directions of the 58 just west of the 43, said Caltrans.<\/p>\n

Power lines were downed in the road due to the crash. Avoid the area. There is no estimate for when the road will reopen.<\/p>\n

Highway 58 east of the roundabout and both directions of Highway 43 are open.<\/p>\n

The vehicle came to rest in a field after it crashed, reportedly catching fire, according to CHP’s website. The people inside reportedly got out. It’s unknown if anyone was injured at this time.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, PG&E reported at 2:56 p.m. that 393 of its customers were affected in an outage. Customers from Enos Lane and Panama Lane to Stockdale Highway, Rosedale Highway, and 7th Standard Road are affected until about 7:30 p.m., said PG&E’s website.<\/p>\n

Caltrans said PG&E is at the site of the crash and is making repairs.<\/p>\n

For updates, visit pgealerts.alerts.pge.com\/outage-tools\/outage-map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vehicle struck a power pole near the roundabout at the intersection of Highway 58…\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-152561","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\/152561","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=152561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152561\/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=152561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}