{"id":359039,"date":"2026-06-13T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359039\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:22:10","slug":"36-year-old-bodfish-man-identified-in-highway-155-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359039\/","title":{"rendered":"36-year-old Bodfish man identified in Highway 155 motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the motorcyclist who died on Highway 155 as 36-year-old Michael Hayden Mollenauer of Bodfish.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/motorcyclist-dies-after-head-on-crash-with-flatbed-truck-on-highway-155-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Motorcyclist dies after head-on crash with flatbed truck on Highway 155<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on Friday, June 5, 2026, at around 1:05 p.m., officers were called to Highway 155, north of Keysville Road, for a report of a crash involving a flatbed truck and a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that Mollenauer was riding a 2006 Honda 600 RX motorcycle northbound on Highway 155, north of Keysville Road, at an unknown rate of speed. A 39-year-old man was driving a 2014 Freightliner flatbed truck southbound on Highway 155, north of Keysville Road, at around 45 to 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p>As the Honda and Freightliner approached one another, the Honda traveled to the left, crossed the solid double-yellow lines, and entered the southbound lane, where it collided with the left front side of the Freightliner.<\/p>\n<p>The impact caused the rider of the Honda to be ejected from the motorcycle in a northeasterly direction onto the roadway of Highway 155. The force of the crash also caused the Honda motorcycle to travel in a northeasterly direction before coming to rest on the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Mollenauer was taken to Kern Valley Hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said it is unknown whether alcohol and\/or drugs were factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the motorcyclist who died on Highway 155&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-359039","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\/359039","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=359039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}