{"id":154080,"date":"2026-01-28T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154080\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:59:07","slug":"68-year-old-pedestrian-killed-on-oswell-street-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154080\/","title":{"rendered":"68-year-old pedestrian killed on Oswell Street identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/at-least-one-person-and-dog-dead-after-crash-on-oswell-street-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">68-year-old man who was killed in a pedestrian crash on Oswell Street last week<\/a> was identified as Salvador Lemus Meza, of Bakersfield. A dog also died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner said that at around 5:45 p.m. on January 20, Meza was struck by a vehicle on Oswell Street, north of Pioneer Drive, and died upon impact.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol (CHP) said that officers were called to the scene at approximately 5:46 p.m. following a crash involving a pedestrian and a vehicle. The investigation revealed that a 25-year-old man was driving a 2009 Nissan Rogue southbound on Oswell Street at about 45 miles per hour when Meza entered the road outside of a crosswalk, directly in the vehicle&#8217;s path.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"At least one person and a dog died after a crash on Oswell Street Tuesday night. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c4910965-e922-4398-b457-1dd2366b4791-Sequence_LINARES_OSWELLACCIDENT_0001_frame_1277.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least one person and a dog died after a crash on Oswell Street Tuesday night. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The crash resulted in severe injuries to Meza, and emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The CHP&#8217;s website noted that animal control was summoned for the deceased dog.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Nissan parked the vehicle at southbound Oswell Street and Potomac Avenue before returning to the scene to cooperate with investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 68-year-old man who was killed in a pedestrian crash on Oswell Street last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-154080","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\/154080","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=154080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}