BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man in a wheelchair was struck by a hit-and-run driver on O Street early Thursday morning near Stella Hills Elementary School.<\/p>\n
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Thursday, October 30th, 2025, at 6:25 a.m., officers were called to the 3600 block of O Street regarding a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a man in the roadway suffering from severe injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The suspect vehicle drove away from the scene.<\/p>\n
Police said the investigation revealed the suspect vehicle was traveling northbound on O Street at a high rate of speed when it struck the pedestrian who was crossing outside of a crosswalk in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n
The 3600 block of O Street is a north\/south roadway with one lane of traffic in each direction. The speed limit on this roadway is 25 MPH.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man in a wheelchair was struck by a hit-and-run driver on O Street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-30493","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\/30493","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=30493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}