{"id":325610,"date":"2026-05-21T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325610\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:06:07","slug":"pickup-truck-strikes-power-pole-on-e-panama-lane-southbound-weedpatch-hwy-closed-chp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325610\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup truck strikes power pole on E. Panama Lane, southbound Weedpatch Hwy closed: CHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A pickup truck struck a power pole on East Panama Lane on Tuesday evening near Weedpatch Highway, according to CHP&#8217;s website. The southbound lanes of Weedpatch Highway are closed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 7:23 p.m. The cause of the crash is unknown, and it&#8217;s unknown if anyone is injured, but at least one person was sent to the hospital, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time,<a href=\"https:\/\/pgealerts.alerts.pge.com\/outage-tools\/outage-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> PG&amp;E&#8217;s outage website<\/a> reports that 1,741 customers are without power in the same area. It&#8217;s unconfirmed if the two incidents are connected at this time. Power went out around the same time. PG&amp;E said an estimated restoration time will be determined later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: PG&amp;E\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9eb85a1a-7dd8-416c-8b20-d79a272e30f8-SEO.png\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A pickup truck struck a power pole on East Panama Lane on Tuesday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-325610","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\/325610","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=325610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}