{"id":325484,"date":"2026-05-21T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:22:08","slug":"stevenson-ranch-man-struck-killed-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325484\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenson Ranch man\u00a0struck, killed\u00a0in Bakersfield\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Stevenson Ranch\u00a0man was killed Thursday night after\u00a0being hit by\u00a0a car in Bakersfield, according to\u00a0the\u00a0California Highway Patrol\u2019s Bakersfield-area\u00a0Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed the man was\u00a054-year-old\u00a0Sibichan\u00a0Varghese.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CHP personnel were called to the\u00a0pedestrian-versus-vehicle\u00a0crash on Snow Road\u00a0at around 8:20 p.m. Thursday, after\u00a0Varghese\u00a0was hit by an 82-year-old\u00a0man\u2019s\u00a0truck.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0news\u00a0release from the office,\u00a0CHP determined\u00a0during an investigation\u00a0the\u00a082-year-old\u00a0was\u00a0driving a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado going westbound\u00a0on Snow Road\u00a0when\u00a0Varghese\u00a0crossed the road outside a crosswalk, directly in front of the driver\u2019s\u00a0truck.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was going about 40 mph\u00a0at the time,\u00a0stopped\u00a0and cooperated with the emergency personnel who responded, the release said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Varghese\u00a0was\u00a0pronounced dead at the scene. Drugs and alcohol\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0suspected to be a factor in the crash, the release said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Stevenson Ranch\u00a0man was killed Thursday night after\u00a0being hit by\u00a0a car in Bakersfield, according to\u00a0the\u00a0California Highway Patrol\u2019s Bakersfield-area\u00a0Office.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-325484","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\/325484","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=325484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}