{"id":310717,"date":"2026-05-11T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310717\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:25:07","slug":"bpd-seeks-driver-of-dodge-charger-after-motorized-mini-bike-rider-struck-on-planz-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310717\/","title":{"rendered":"BPD seeks driver of Dodge Charger after motorized mini-bike rider struck on Planz Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are looking for the driver of a Dodge Charger, who is accused of hitting a juvenile riding a motorized mini-bike on Planz Road on April 15.<\/p>\n

The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding the suspect vehicle involved in a crash on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026, at around 10:05 p.m. near the 600 block of Planz Road, just east of South Chester Avenue.<\/p>\n

The suspect vehicle was traveling westbound on Planz Road when it rear-ended a juvenile victim who was riding a motorized mini-bike westbound on Planz Road.<\/p>\n

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Bakersfield police are looking for the driver of a Dodge Charger, who is accused of hitting a juvenile riding a motorized mini-bike on Planz Road on April 15. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n

Police said the suspect vehicle appears to be a Dodge Charger, light gray in color with chrome rims. The suspect vehicle was initially traveling southbound on Union Avenue before making a westbound turn onto Planz Road. The suspect driver drove away from the scene westbound on Planz Road and northbound on South Chester Avenue.<\/p>\n

The victim sustained moderate injuries as a result of this hit-and-run crash.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call BPD Traffic Unit Investigator C. Mejia at (661) 852-7161 or the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are looking for the driver of a Dodge Charger, who is accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-310717","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\/310717","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=310717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}