{"id":310736,"date":"2026-05-11T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:37:08","slug":"bakersfield-woman-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-after-wrong-way-crash-on-highway-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310736\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield woman arrested on suspicion of DUI after wrong-way crash on Highway 99"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 33-year-old Bakersfield woman was arrested for suspicion of DUI after CHP says she drove the wrong way on Highway 99 Saturday night, injuring another driver.<\/p>\n

The California Highway Patrol said on Saturday, May 9, at around 9:10 p.m., officers were dispatched to a call of a wrong-way driver in the area of northbound Highway 99 at Rosedale Highway.<\/p>\n

CHP said preliminary reports indicate a 33-year-old woman from Bakersfield was driving a 2018 Chevrolet Impala southbound in the number one lane of northbound Highway 99 at an unknown rate of speed.<\/p>\n

At the same time, an 18-year-old female was driving a 2003 Honda Accord northbound on Highway 99, south of Rosedale Highway.<\/p>\n

CHP said for reasons still under investigation, the front of the Chevrolet collided with the Honda.<\/p>\n

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After the crash, both drivers were transported to Kern Medical for minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n

The driver of the Chevrolet Impala, Gabrielle Monique Valdez, was consequently arrested for DUI, according to CHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 33-year-old Bakersfield woman was arrested for suspicion of DUI after CHP says she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-310736","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\/310736","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=310736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}