{"id":299565,"date":"2026-05-04T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299565\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:30:07","slug":"coroner-identifies-26-year-old-bakersfield-woman-killed-in-feliz-drive-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299565\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 26-year-old Bakersfield woman killed in Feliz Drive hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/woman-hit-and-killed-while-lying-in-road-in-south-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">woman who died after being struck by a vehicle<\/a> on April 21st as 26-year-old Roshanda Jones of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/woman-hit-and-killed-while-lying-in-road-in-south-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Woman hit and killed while lying in road in south Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at around 9:08 p.m., officers were called out to reports of a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian in the 1500 block of Feliz Drive.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found a woman, later identified as Jones, lying in the road with severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to a hospital where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a preliminary investigation found that Jones had been lying in the road for an unknown reason when she was hit.<\/p>\n<p>The driver initially left the scene but then returned and cooperated with the investigation, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a woman who died after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-299565","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\/299565","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=299565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}