BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 54-year-old man from Stevenson Ranch was struck and killed by a pickup truck in northwest Bakersfield on Thursday night, according to the Kern County coroner and the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
At around 8:22 p.m., CHP officers were called to Snow Road, west of Quail Creek Road, for a report of a crash involving a pedestrian and a pickup truck.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation indicated that an unidentified 82-year-old man was driving a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado in the no. 1 lane, heading westbound on Snow Road, west of Hollow Brook Drive, at around 40 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
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For reasons still under investigation, Sibichan Varghese, 54, entered the road outside of a marked crosswalk directly into the path of the Chevrolet, said CHP. The pickup truck struck the pedestrian and suffered major injuries. Varghese was announced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup truck stayed on scene and cooperated with law enforcement. CHP said alcohol and\/or drugs were not factors in the crash. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to contact the CHP Bakersfield Area office at (661) 396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 54-year-old man from Stevenson Ranch was struck and killed by a pickup truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-317565","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\/317565","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=317565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}