{"id":36237,"date":"2025-11-03T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36237\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:45:08","slug":"man-in-wheelchair-struck-and-killed-by-hit-and-run-driver-in-bakersfield-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36237\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in wheelchair struck and killed by hit-and-run driver in Bakersfield identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-in-wheelchair-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-near-stella-hills-elementary-school-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver<\/a> while crossing a street in a wheelchair as 58-year-old Darryl Ray Mick of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-in-wheelchair-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-near-stella-hills-elementary-school-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man in wheelchair killed in hit-and-run crash near Stella Hills Elementary School<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Thursday, October 30th, 2025, at 6:25 a.m., officers were called to the 3600 block of O Street regarding a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found Mick in the roadway suffering from severe injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect vehicle drove away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation revealed the suspect vehicle was traveling northbound on O Street at a high rate of speed when it struck the pedestrian, who was crossing outside of a crosswalk in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this collision is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who was struck and killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-36237","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\/36237","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=36237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}