{"id":257146,"date":"2026-04-08T06:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:39:19","slug":"motorcyclist-identified-in-highway-58-crash-near-coffee-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257146\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist identified in Highway 58 crash near Coffee Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/29-year-old-motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-on-highway-58-near-coffee-road-kern-county-california-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">motorcyclist who died after making an unsafe turn and crashing off Highway 58 near Coffee Road early Saturday morning<\/a> has been identified as 29-year-old Jesus Alberto Garcia Cornej, of Bloomington.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County coroner said on April 4, 2026, at around 1:40 a.m., Cornej was riding a motorcycle eastbound on Highway 58, just west of Coffee Road, when he lost control and crashed into a chain link fence. He was pronounced dead at 2:04 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>According to CHP, for reasons still under investigation, the rider made an unsafe turning movement. The Kawasaki went off the roadway and overturned on the southward-descending dirt embankment.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Cornej was ejected from the motorcycle and died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The motorcyclist who died after making an unsafe turn and crashing off Highway 58 near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-257146","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\/257146","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=257146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}