{"id":153455,"date":"2026-01-28T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:15:07","slug":"speeding-drivers-put-lives-at-risk-on-kern-county-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153455\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding drivers put lives at risk on Kern County roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Speeding drivers are a major safety issue on roads in Kern County.<\/p>\n<p>New Research from LendingTree shows Bakersfield ranks number 7 nationwide for speed related incidents, with excessive speed playing a major role in more than one in four fatal crashes locally.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that younger drivers and drivers of certain vehicle brands are more likely to speed.<\/p>\n<p>LendingTree Auto Insurance Expert Rob Bhatt joined ARC Bakersfield to share more details about driver behavior and safety on our roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Speeding drivers are a major safety issue on roads in Kern County. New Research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-153455","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\/153455","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=153455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}