{"id":280395,"date":"2026-04-22T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280395\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:24:07","slug":"woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-a-vehicle-in-south-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280395\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after being struck by a vehicle in South Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A woman died after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday night in South Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department reported the incident occurred around 9 p.m. on Feliz Drive, just east of South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. For unknown reasons, the woman was already lying in the roadway when the vehicle hit her.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle initially fled the scene. When officers arrived, the woman was transported to a hospital, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver eventually returned to the scene and cooperated with the investigation. Investigators said neither speed nor intoxication appear to have been factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information, call the Bakersfield Police Department at 327-7111.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A woman died after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday night in South Bakersfield.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,120724,153,152,324,120725,162,120726,120728,120727],"class_list":{"0":"post-280395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-fatal-crash","11":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-bakersfield-police-department","14":"tag-feliz-drive-pedestrian-crash","15":"tag-kern-county-news","16":"tag-south-bakersfield-hit-and-run","17":"tag-south-martin-luther-king-jr-boulevard","18":"tag-south-mlk-boulevard-accident"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280395","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=280395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}