{"id":339748,"date":"2026-05-31T02:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:25:32","slug":"man-killed-identified-after-pursuit-ends-with-vehicle-submerged-in-lake-isabella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339748\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed, identified after pursuit ends with vehicle submerged in Lake Isabella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/driver-dies-after-chp-pursuit-ends-with-land-rover-submerged-in-lake-isabella-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">driver killed after allegedly leading officers on a pursuit and crashing into Lake Isabella<\/a> as 21-year-old Ashot Geboyan of Van Nuys.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on Saturday, May 23, 2026, at around 6:16 p.m., a CHP Bakersfield Area unit working within the Kern Valley area saw a traffic violation involving a white 2018 Land Rover and tried to initiate an enforcement stop near Scodie Avenue and Dunwood Street.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/driver-dies-after-chp-pursuit-ends-with-land-rover-submerged-in-lake-isabella-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Driver dies after CHP pursuit ends with Land Rover submerged in Lake Isabella<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to CHP, the driver of the white Land Rover, identified as Geboyan, failed to yield, and a pursuit ensued onto southbound Sierra Way.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that the CHP unit continued to pursue the Land Rover on southbound Sierra Way. As the vehicle approached a curve in the roadway near Stine Cove at a high rate of speed, Geboyan failed to safely negotiate the curve, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said at around 6:21 p.m., the Land Rover left the roadway, traveled airborne over a dirt embankment, and entered Lake Isabella. As a result of the crash, the Land Rover became completely submerged, and the driver did not emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel responded and initiated a search and rescue operation. On Sunday, May 24, 2026, at around 2:51 a.m., the Land Rover was recovered from the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Geboyan was found inside the vehicle and died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the driver killed after allegedly leading officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-339748","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\/339748","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=339748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}