{"id":278906,"date":"2026-04-21T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:40:20","slug":"pedestrian-killed-after-being-struck-by-train-near-q-steet-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278906\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed after being struck by train near Q Steet in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 One person died after being struck by a train near Q Street in Bakersfield late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Saturday, April 20, 2026, just before 9 p.m., officers were called to the area of Q and James streets on the report of a pedestrian suffering severe injuries after being hit by a train.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was identified as a male.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One person died after being struck by a train near Q Street in Bakersfield late Monday night. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8c437415-e742-49f7-9a27-7321e2c52a88-QSTTRAINFATALV3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One person died after being struck by a train near Q Street in Bakersfield late Monday night. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Union Pacific Railroad Police responded and assumed the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 One person died after being struck by a train near Q Street in Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-278906","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\/278906","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=278906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}