{"id":191768,"date":"2026-02-24T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191768\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:10:08","slug":"22m-settlement-reached-in-deadly-bakersfield-police-crash-civil-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191768\/","title":{"rendered":"$22M settlement reached in deadly Bakersfield police crash civil lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield has agreed to pay a $22 million settlement in the civil lawsuit connected to a 2023 crash involving former Bakersfield police officer Ricardo Robles.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit stems from a deadly collision at Muller Road and South Vineland Drive that killed 31-year-old Mario Lares and injured passenger Ana Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Robles was allegedly driving without overhead lights or a siren activated at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The city agreed to pay the $22 million settlement to the family of Lares and Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Robles entered a plea in 2024 to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and was sentenced to felony probation and community service.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The City of Bakersfield has agreed to pay a $22 million settlement in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[86382,151,155,153,152,89941,156,35636,158,89942,48303],"class_list":{"0":"post-191768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-ana-hernandez","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","11":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-bakersfield-police-officer-crash","14":"tag-bpd","15":"tag-civil-lawsuit","16":"tag-deadly","17":"tag-mario-lares","18":"tag-ricardo-robles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191768","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=191768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}