{"id":157405,"date":"2026-01-31T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157405\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:54:12","slug":"los-angeles-man-identified-in-fatal-wrong-way-crash-on-hwy-14-in-inyokern-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157405\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles man identified in fatal wrong-way crash on Hwy. 14 in Inyokern area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The man killed in a wrong-way crash on Highway 14 near Inyokern on Wednesday night has been identified as 23-year-old Joaquin Angel Aguirre of Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/at-least-1-dead-in-hwy-14-crash-in-inyokern-area-chp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">One dead after wrong-way crash on Hwy. 14 in Inyokern area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner and CHP reported that at around 10:15 p.m., on Jan. 28, Aguirre was driving a vehicle the wrong way on Highway 14, north of Cow Heaven Road, when he collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck. Aguirre died upon impact. <\/p>\n<p>CHP reported that a male was driving a 2007 Toyota Corolla northbound in the southbound lanes, leading to the crash with a 2014 Freightliner traveling southbound.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that driver impairment is suspected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The man killed in a wrong-way crash on Highway 14 near Inyokern on Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-157405","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\/157405","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=157405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}