{"id":185927,"date":"2026-02-20T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185927\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:46:15","slug":"bakersfield-california-man-dies-in-cooper-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185927\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield, California, man dies in Cooper County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click the + Icon To See Additional Sharing Options<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"216\">A 32-year-old Bakersfield, California, man was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Thursday, February 19, 2026, on Interstate 70 in Cooper County.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"439\">The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported the crash occurred at 1:50 a.m. in the westbound lanes at the 111-mile marker. A 2024 Freightliner traveled off the left side of the roadway, returned to the road, and overturned.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"593\">The driver, who was wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:25 a.m. by James Hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"595\" data-end=\"652\">The Freightliner was totaled and was towed by I70 Towing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"687\" data-end=\"777\">Troop F reported this was its second fatality for February and the fifth fatality of 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"889\">The Missouri State Highway Patrol was assisted by other troopers and commercial vehicle officers at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\n Post Views: 1<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Click the + Icon To See Additional Sharing Options<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click the + Icon To See Additional Sharing Options A 32-year-old Bakersfield, California, man was killed in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-185927","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\/185927","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=185927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}