BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 29-year-old motorcyclist died after CHP says he made an unsafe turn and crashed off Highway 58 near Coffee Road early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol said on Saturday, April 4, 2026, at around 1:40 a.m., officers were called to eastbound Highway 58, west of Coffee Road, for a report of a traffic crash involving a motorcycle.<\/p>\n
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that a 29-year-old man was riding a 2008 Kawasaki motorcycle eastbound on Highway 58, west of Coffee Road within an unknown lane, at an undetermined rate of speed.<\/p>\n
According to CHP, for reasons still under investigation, the rider made an unsafe turning movement. The Kawasaki went off the roadway and overturned upon the south descending dirt embankment.<\/p>\n
The rider was ejected from the motorcycle.<\/p>\n
The rider died at the scene.<\/p>\n
CHP said at this time, it was determined that alcohol and\/or drugs do not appear to be a factor in this crash.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to call the CHP Bakersfield Area Public Information Officer at 661-396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 29-year-old motorcyclist died after CHP says he made an unsafe turn and crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-254315","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\/254315","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=254315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}