{"id":216985,"date":"2026-03-12T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:00:08","slug":"man-struck-and-killed-by-vehicle-on-hwy-99-in-dec-2025-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216985\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck and killed by vehicle on Hwy. 99 in Dec. 2025 identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified th<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/at-least-1-killed-in-hwy-99-incident-near-white-lane-chp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">e man killed after being struck by a vehicle <\/a>in December 2025 as 40-year-old Rajinder Singh Bhullar of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/at-least-1-killed-in-hwy-99-incident-near-white-lane-chp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Man struck and killed by vehicle on Hwy. 99 near White Lane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on December 18, 2025, at around 6:25 p.m., officers were called to a report of a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian on Highway 99 at White Lane.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that a man was in the northbound lanes of traffic when a white Mercedes SUV traveling in the number three lane of Highway 99, just north of White Lane, struck the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, later identified as Bhullar, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/00b791e1-4ba5-4629-b3e2-f90a5cca3767-Image20251218T201753.369.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Mercedes was not hurt and cooperated with investigating officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man killed after being struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-216985","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\/216985","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=216985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}