{"id":253409,"date":"2026-04-05T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:39:43","slug":"west-plains-man-injured-in-saturday-night-crash-south-of-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253409\/","title":{"rendered":"West Plains Man Injured in Saturday Night Crash South of Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozarkradionews.com\/ozarkradionews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Redblue-Wreck-Crash-NT7.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" title=\"Redblue Wreck-Crash-NT7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Redblue-Wreck-Crash-NT7-696x522.png\" decoding=\"async\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"696\" data-eio-rheight=\"522\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Redblue-Wreck-Crash-NT7-696x522.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Redblue Wreck-Crash-NT7\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a>            <\/p>\n<p>A 52\u2011year\u2011old West Plains man was taken to Baxter Regional Hospital after a single\u2011vehicle crash Saturday evening on Highway 101, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>\nAdvertisement&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the crash happened around 7:50 p.m., about half a mile south of Bakersfield. The northbound 2011 Ford Focus ran off the roadway, struck a fence, went down an embankment, and hit a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was wearing a seat belt, sustained minor injuries and was transported by Howell County Ambulance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash was investigated by Cpl. D.J. Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTIsMTMsNjA=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodhuston.com\/home\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Billboard-23Q1-Tax-Refund-1.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1000\" data-eio-rheight=\"400\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Billboard-23Q1-Tax-Refund-1.jpg\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                        Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozarkradionews.com\/missouri-news\/capitol-report-bennie-cook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capitol Report Bennie Cook<\/a>            \t                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A 52\u2011year\u2011old West Plains man was taken to Baxter Regional Hospital after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-253409","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\/253409","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=253409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}