{"id":235924,"date":"2026-03-25T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:51:14","slug":"northbound-99-closed-at-olive-drive-due-to-police-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235924\/","title":{"rendered":"Northbound 99 closed at Olive Drive due to police activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Northbound lanes on Highway 99 are closed due to police activity at Olive Drive.<\/p>\n<p>This happened just after 6 a.m. after reports of a man standing on the edge of the Olive Drive overpass, according to the CHP incident page.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News live team is in the area and reported what appears to be KCSO talking to the man.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is backed up to California Ave, Caltrans advises drivers to use an alternative route.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Northbound lanes on Highway 99 are closed due to police activity at Olive Drive.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-235924","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\/235924","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=235924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}