BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver died after a solo-vehicle crash on Highway 178 near Trona.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol said on April 19, 2026, at around 8:24 p.m., officers were called to a reported solo-vehicle traffic crash on Highway 178, west of Poison Canyon.<\/p>\n
CHP said a female was driving a white Kia Sorento westbound Highway 178, west of Poison Canyon.<\/p>\n
According to CHP, for unknown reasons, the driver made an unsafe turning movement to the left, leaving the westbound lane and crossing into the eastbound lane.<\/p>\n
The driver subsequently veered to the right causing the Kia to leave the roadway and travel across the dirt field north of Highway 178. The Kia overturned as it traveled across the dirt field, and the driver was ejected from the vehicle.<\/p>\n
The driver died.<\/p>\n
CHP said if you witnessed this crash to call Officer S. Galloway at the CHP Mojave Area office at (661) 823-5500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver died after a solo-vehicle crash on Highway 178 near Trona. The California…\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-277963","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\/277963","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=277963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277963\/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=277963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}