{"id":247336,"date":"2026-04-01T21:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247336\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:43:13","slug":"2-dead-after-car-slams-into-tree-on-hwy-178-in-weldon-passenger-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247336\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead after car slams into tree on Hwy. 178 in Weldon, passenger ID&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A crash on Highway 178 in Weldon left two people dead Saturday evening after a car slammed into a tree, according to the Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened around 6:35 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2026, in the 19000 block of Highway 178. The coroner said a man was driving with a female passenger when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle struck a tree. Both the driver and passenger died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office identified the passenger as 62-year-old Deborah Lea Struska of Weldon. The driver was identified only as John Doe, and his name will be released once the next of kin positively identifies him.<\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patro investigated the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A crash on Highway 178 in Weldon left two people dead Saturday evening after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-247336","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\/247336","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=247336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}