BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver was seriously injured and later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after a crash with a semi-trailer on Sunday afternoon on Merle Haggard Drive, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
CHP officers responded at around 4:45 p.m. Sunday to a report of a two-vehicle crash in the area. Investigators said a 40-year-old man driving a 2017 Ford Escape crossed from the westbound lanes into the eastbound lanes for reasons still under investigation.<\/p>\n
At the same time, a semi-trailer was traveling eastbound on Merle Haggard Drive when the Ford collided with it. The Ford driver was taken to Kern Medical with major injuries, CHP said. The semi-trailer driver was not injured.<\/p>\n
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CHP said the Ford driver was later arrested at the hospital for allegedly driving under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver was seriously injured and later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-300528","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\/300528","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=300528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}