{"id":222516,"date":"2026-03-16T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222516\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:43:30","slug":"pedestrian-identified-after-fatal-hit-and-run-on-belle-terrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222516\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian identified after fatal hit-and-run on Belle Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-pedestrian-killed-in-southeast-bakersfield-hit-and-run-suspect-arrested-saturday-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">woman struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run on Belle Terrace Saturday night <\/a>has been identified as Lalita Marie Young, 49, of Bakersfield, said the Kern County coroner. The suspected driver was arrested shortly after the crash and is charged with vehicular manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said on Saturday, around 9:50 p.m., officers first responded to the 200 block of Belle Terrace to reports of a car striking a pedestrian. They found a woman with major injuries in the road, who later died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they discovered that the woman was on the south shoulder of the road when a car driving eastbound veered from the road and struck her. The driver fled from the area after the crash, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Less than an hour after the crash, officers arrested 42-year-old Pedro Contreras. He was arrested on charges related to vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run causing death.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe speed and impairment were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A woman struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run on Belle Terrace Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-222516","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\/222516","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=222516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}