{"id":284511,"date":"2026-04-24T22:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:50:25","slug":"18-year-old-driver-suffers-medical-emergency-as-car-moves-forward-and-struck-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284511\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old driver suffers medical emergency as car moves forward and struck by train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vehicle moved forward and was struck by a train as the 18-year-old driver was suffering from a medical emergency Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said on Friday, April 24, 2026, at around 8:12 a.m., the woman was driving on southbound Weedpatch Highway at Edison Road.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle stopped for the down railroad arms due to a train that was passing through the area.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that she must have suffered a medical emergency that caused her vehicle to go forward and collide with the train.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were sustained.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A vehicle moved forward and was struck by a train as the 18-year-old driver was suffering from a medical emergency Friday morning. PHOTO: RD on the Scene\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7b7f6327-9185-42f2-bf98-6fbd82038b75-Screenshot20260424120822.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A vehicle moved forward and was struck by a train as the 18-year-old driver was suffering from a medical emergency Friday morning. PHOTO: RD on the Scene<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Kern Medical for the medical emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vehicle moved forward and was struck by a train as the 18-year-old driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-284511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284511","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=284511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}