{"id":240817,"date":"2026-03-28T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:50:44","slug":"driver-killed-after-running-stop-sign-crashing-into-semi-trailer-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240817\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after running stop sign, crashing into semi-trailer identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/deadly-crash-on-bear-mountain-boulevard-leaves-at-least-one-dead-lanes-blocked-kern-county-california-highway-patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> driver who died after running a stop sign and hitting a semi-truck on Bear Mountain Boulevard<\/a> in January as 21-year-old Nathaniel Xzavier Onsurez.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/deadly-crash-on-bear-mountain-boulevard-leaves-at-least-one-dead-lanes-blocked-kern-county-california-highway-patrol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man dies in high-speed rollover crash with Freightliner on Bear Mountain Boulevard: CHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on January 7, 2026, at around 9:12 a.m., officers responded to the intersection of Bear Mountain Boulevard and Wible Road for a report of a crash involving the two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>CHP&#8217;s investigation found that Onsurez was driving a 2011 blue Honda CRV southbound on Wible Road at a high rate of speed, and approaching the stop sign at Bear Mountain Boulevard. At the same time, a Fresno man was driving a Freightliner westbound on Bear Mountain Boulevard at around 55 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"{p}At least one person is dead after a crash on Bear Mountain Boulevard and Wible Road Wednesday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/102341f0-08bb-4089-9f12-5994a1667cfe-Sequence_EVERT_0107BEARMOUNTWIBLEFATAL_0001_frame_944.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least one person is dead after a crash on Bear Mountain Boulevard and Wible Road Wednesday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>As the driver of the Freightliner headed west, the driver of the Honda failed to stop at the stop sign and went through the intersection. The front end of the Honda crashed into the right side of the Freightliner&#8217;s semi-trailer, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>Onsurez died.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Freightliner was not injured and cooperated with law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the driver who died after running a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-240817","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\/240817","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=240817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}