{"id":25942,"date":"2025-10-27T20:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25942\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:20:06","slug":"bicyclist-killed-after-hit-and-run-on-weedpatch-hwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25942\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist killed after hit-and-run on Weedpatch Hwy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A bicyclist is dead after being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run on Weedpatch Highway Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the California Highway Patrol, just before 9:45 p.m., a bicyclist had been reported to be struck by a vehicle on Weedpatch Highway, otherwise known as State Route 184 north of Muller Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bicyclist was reported to be travelling north on Weedpatch Highway when a vehicle approached the rear end of the bike, also travelling northbound. The driver then struck the bicyclist, the bicyclist landing in the east dirt shoulder of Weedpatch Highway, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver fled the scene immediately after, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is unknown if speed, drugs and or alcohol are contributing factors to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with any information on this crash is asked to contact CHP at 661-396-6600.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 being struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,12897,859,19743],"class_list":["post-25942","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","tag-weedpatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942","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=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}