{"id":296088,"date":"2026-05-02T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:18:08","slug":"man-sentenced-to-4-years-for-dui-crash-that-killed-35-year-old-man-on-fairfax-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296088\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 4 years for DUI crash that killed 35-year-old man on Fairfax Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison after<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/suspect-arrested-for-dui-after-fatal-crash-on-fairfax-road-in-east-bakersfield-according-to-bakersfield-police-department#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> investigators said he drove under the influence and caused a head-on crash that killed a 35-year-old man on Fairfax Road last summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police investigators said on July 27, 2025, at around 12:35 a.m., Juan Rangel was driving on Fairfax Road, south of Alfred Harrell Highway, when he veered into the other lane and crashed head-on with Salvador Gallegos Junior, 35.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5c9bd522-8f5e-482a-b460-a19cb8477d9e-Sequence_MILLS_JUANRANGELSENTENCING_0001_frame_413.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Salvador Gallegos Junior died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Officers determined Rangel was under the influence of alcohol and arrested him for DUI. He pleaded no contest in early April, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison after investigators said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-296088","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\/296088","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=296088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}