{"id":316378,"date":"2026-05-15T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:09:09","slug":"trial-of-man-accused-of-dui-crash-into-bakersfield-christmas-parade-crowd-delayed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316378\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of man accused of DUI crash into Bakersfield Christmas parade crowd delayed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 After more than a dozen delays, the jury trial for Alan Booth, the man <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/heavy-police-presence-in-downtown-bakersfield-christmas-parade-reportedly-canceled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of driving drunk into a crowd at the 2023 Bakersfield Christmas Parade<\/a>, is now expected to begin on Monday, May 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/trial-delayed-again-for-man-accused-in-2023-bakersfield-christmas-parade-crash-court-crime-downtown-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Trial delayed again for man accused in 2023 Bakersfield Christmas Parade crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Records show the trial had been set to start as early as last July but has been postponed repeatedly since then.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"{p}Driver crashes into attendees at the Bakersfield Christmas Parade on Thursday, December 7, 2023. Three people taken to the hospital with serious injuries. KBAK\/FOX58{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5b8226bc-35d5-40b2-b2b0-dab4d961e24c-large16x9_DT.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Driver crashes into attendees at the Bakersfield Christmas Parade on Thursday, December 7, 2023. Three people taken to the hospital with serious injuries. KBAK\/FOX58<\/p>\n<p>Booth has pleaded not guilty to counts of assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest and DUI. He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/alan-booth-found-guilty-of-misdemeanor-dui-in-unrelated-case-records-court-crime-alcohol-oak-street-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Booth was found guilty in a separate DUI case connected to an April 2024 arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 After more than a dozen delays, the jury trial for Alan Booth, the man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-316378","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\/316378","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=316378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}