{"id":362401,"date":"2026-06-16T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:15:30","slug":"steven-bernal-killed-in-bakersfield-crash-on-24th-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362401\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Bernal\u00a0Killed in Bakersfield Crash on 24th Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernal\u00a0suffered severe injuries and was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-412769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Fatal-Accident-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Bernal\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"\/>Steven Bernal\u00a0Killed in Bakersfield Crash on 24th Street<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield, CA. \u2013 24-year-old Steven Rene Bernal\u00a0was killed in a car accident early Saturday morning in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bakersfield Police Department, the accident happened around 1:04 a.m. in the 2300 block of 24th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found two severely damaged vehicles in the westbound lanes after a head-on collision.<\/p>\n<p>Bernal\u00a0suffered severe injuries and was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The male driver of the other vehicle suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that driver was driving the wrong way at a high rate of speed with no lights on.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the accident were not released.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the accident is ongoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernal\u00a0suffered severe injuries and was later pronounced dead at the scene. Steven Bernal\u00a0Killed in Bakersfield Crash on 24th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-362401","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\/362401","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=362401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}