BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was found dead Sunday morning in southwest Bakersfield after police say he was possibly struck by a hit-and-run driver.<\/p>\n
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at around 8:08 a.m., officers were called to a report of a person down in the roadway on the 7900 block of Camino Media.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a man unresponsive.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical personnel arrived and pronounced the person dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police said preliminary evidence suggests the possibility of a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian. However, no involved vehicle or driver was found at the scene.<\/p>\n
Officers canvassed the area for witnesses, but none have come forward at this time.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident happened on a residential portion of Camino Media, which ends in a cul-de-sac east of Gosford Road.<\/p>\n
BPD said this remains an active and ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was found dead Sunday morning in southwest Bakersfield after police say he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,350,161,348,984,236,178,2657],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-crash","tag-hit-and-run","tag-investigation","tag-pedestrian","tag-police","tag-vehicle","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","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=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}