{"id":160598,"date":"2026-02-02T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:46:06","slug":"coroner-identifies-62-year-old-man-killed-in-solo-vehicle-crash-into-canal-on-herring-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160598\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 62-year-old man killed in solo-vehicle crash into canal on Herring Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-dies-after-crashing-into-canal-near-arvin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man who died after a solo-vehicle crash into the canal <\/a>as 62-year-old Jorge Adan Machuca of Maricopa.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-dies-after-crashing-into-canal-near-arvin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">62-year-old man dies after crashing into canal south of Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on Saturday, January 17, 2026, at around 5:53 p.m., officers were called to Herring Road, west of Highway 99, for a report of a crash involving one vehicle into a canal.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that Machuca, and sole occupant, was driving a 2008 Toyota Prius westbound on Herring Road, west of Highway 99, in heavy fog conditions.<\/p>\n<p>For reasons still under investigation, Machuca allowed the vehicle to cross over the eastbound lane, onto the dirt shoulder of Herring Road, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota continued in a southwesterly direction before overturning in a water-filled canal.<\/p>\n<p>Machuca was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Bakersfield CHP at (661) 396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who died after a solo-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-160598","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\/160598","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=160598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}