{"id":246838,"date":"2026-04-01T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:36:50","slug":"mcfarland-man-22-identified-in-fatal-highway-43-crash-near-shafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246838\/","title":{"rendered":"McFarland man, 22, identified in fatal Highway 43 crash near Shafter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 22-year-old McFarland man was killed on March 6 after <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/chp-driver-killed-after-car-rear-ends-semi-with-double-trailers-on-highway-43-kern-county-shafter-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his car rear-ended a semi-truck towing double trailers on Highway 43 south of Shafter<\/a>, said coroner officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner identified the driver as Angel Arron Miranda. The coroner said Miranda was driving on Highway 43 at about 4:53 a.m. when the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol officers were called Friday, March 6, 2026, to Highway 43 near Orange Street for a report of a two-vehicle crash involving a truck tractor and emergency personnel responding.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said they found a man was driving a 2009 Toyota Corolla southbound on Highway 43, north of Orange Street, at an undetermined speed. A 42-year-old Shafter man was driving a 2020 Freightliner Cascadia southbound while towing double trailers at about 15 to 20 mph, directly ahead of the Toyota, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota sustained major front-end damage and became fully engulfed, with the driver pinned inside, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda died at the scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Both the northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 43 near Orange Street were closed for about two and a half hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 22-year-old McFarland man was killed on March 6 after his car rear-ended a semi-truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-246838","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\/246838","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=246838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}