BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 36-year-old man was arrested for suspicion of DUI after crashing into a KCSO transport vehicle, injuring the driver and three inmates, on 24th Street early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
The Bakersfield Police Department said on June 11, 2026, at around 2:55 a.m., officers were called to the intersection of Chester Avenue and 24th Street regarding a crash.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived and found 36-year-old Bernice Bravo Menzo, the driver of a black sedan, who sustained minor to moderate injuries, and determined to be driving under the influence.<\/p>\n
Menzo was taken to a hospital for treatment and arrested for felony DUI.<\/p>\n
CHP said the preliminary investigation found that Bravo was driving westbound on 24th Street at excessive speed and allegedly ran the red light, hitting a KCSO transport vehicle that was traveling southbound on Chester Avenue approaching the intersection of 24th Street on a green light.<\/p>\n
The driver of the KCSO transport van and three inmates sustained minor to moderate injuries. All were taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
24th Street at Chester Avenue is a one-way westbound roadway with three lanes of traffic. Chester Avenue at 24th Street is a north-south roadway with two lanes of traffic in each direction, with a left-turn storage lane for northbound traffic. The intersection is controlled by three-way automated traffic signals that BPD said appear to be working properly at the time of the collision.<\/p>\n
This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
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Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 36-year-old man was arrested for suspicion of DUI after crashing into a KCSO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-356650","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\/356650","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=356650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}