{"id":200917,"date":"2026-03-02T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:17:07","slug":"coroner-identifies-59-year-old-man-killed-after-struck-by-two-vehicles-on-baker-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200917\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 59-year-old man killed after struck by two vehicles on Baker Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-two-vehicles-in-downtown-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man who died after being struck by two vehicles on Baker Street<\/a> as 59-year-old Robert James Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bakersfield Police, officers were called out at 8:20 p.m. on Sunday night to the 700 block of Baker Street for reports of a man in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Police said when officers arrived, they found a man lying injured in the road.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-two-vehicles-in-downtown-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man dies after being hit by two vehicles in downtown Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital and later died. He was later identified as Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>Police said after an investigation, they determined that the man was walking in the road, outside of a crosswalk, when he was hit by a Chevrolet truck.<\/p>\n<p>He was then struck a second time by a Nissan sedan.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police said driver impairment is not a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has identified the man who died after being struck&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":["post-200917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200917","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=200917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200917\/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=200917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}