BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man died after a crash on Highway 99 in Bakersfield early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol said on Sunday, May 10, 2026, at around 1:58 a.m., officers were called to northbound Highway 99 at Hosking Avenue for a report of a two-vehicle traffic crash.<\/p>\n
CHP said a preliminary investigation determined an unknown male driver was operating a 2015 black Honda Civic northbound on Highway 99 in the number three lane at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n
A 34-year-old man from Delano was operating a 2019 Peterbilt semi-truck directly in front of the Honda in the number three lane at approximately 55 miles per hour. For reasons still under investigation, the Honda overtook the Peterbilt semi-truck and collided with the rear of the Peterbilt\u2019s semi-trailer.<\/p>\n
CHP said the impact caused the Honda to travel in a northeasterly direction before coming to rest on the right shoulder of northbound Highway 99 underneath the Hosking Avenue overpass.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Peterbilt pulled onto the right shoulder of northbound Highway 99, north of Hosking Avenue, and waited for CHP and emergency personnel to arrive.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Honda sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency personnel.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Peterbilt was transported to Kern Medical with minor injuries and is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n
At the time of the crash, weather conditions were clear. It is currently unknown whether alcohol and\/or drugs were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to call CHP Bakersfield at 661-396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man died after a crash on Highway 99 in Bakersfield early Sunday morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-310636","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\/310636","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=310636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}