{"id":25866,"date":"2025-10-27T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:31:26","slug":"bicyclist-dead-after-crash-in-south-bakersfield-chp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25866\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist dead after crash in south Bakersfield: CHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A bicyclist is dead after a crash in south Bakersfield early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers with the California Highway Patrol responded to southbound Union Avenue, south of Fairview Road for a crash around 3:42 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigation showed a man was riding a bicycle on southbound Union Avenue in the number two lane. A woman, 32, was driving in a 2017 gray Nissan Altima in the number two lane at about 45 to 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was approaching the bicyclist, she suddenly noticed the bicyclist and took evasive action. CHP said she was unable to avoid the bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The involvement of alcohol and drugs is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A bicyclist is dead after a crash in south Bakersfield early Saturday morning. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,12897,859],"class_list":["post-25866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bicyclist","tag-california-highway-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866","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=25866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}