BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An SUV that made a U-turn on Highway 178 in northeast Bakersfield ended in a crash with a couple on a motorcycle Sunday morning, leaving them severely injured.<\/p>\n
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Sunday, October 12, 2025, at around 9:38 a.m., officers were called to a reported injury crash at Highway 178 and Comanche Drive.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a white Honda CR-V and a black Harley Davidson motorcycle involved in a crash in the 13300 block of Highway 178.<\/p>\n
BPD said a preliminary investigation found that both vehicles were traveling eastbound on Highway 178 when the driver of the Honda CR-V initiated a U-turn, resulting in a crash with the motorcycle.<\/p>\n
The driver of the CR-V sustained minor injuries and declined medical treatment at the scene. The motorcyclist, identified as a man, and a passenger, identified as a woman, both suffered severe injuries and were taken to a hospital, where they remain in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Police said at this time, neither speed nor impairment is believed to be a contributing factor in the crash.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding 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 An SUV that made a U-turn on Highway 178 in northeast Bakersfield ended in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,350,2686,2689,2687,2685,236,2688],"class_list":{"0":"post-1864","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","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-highway-178","13":"tag-honda-cr-v","14":"tag-injuries","15":"tag-motorcycle","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-u-turn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}