{"id":363232,"date":"2026-06-16T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363232\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:31:39","slug":"man-dead-after-head-on-collision-on-24th-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/363232\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after head-on collision on 24th St"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A man is dead after a head-on collision on 24th Street Saturday, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified him as Steven Rene Bernal, 24, of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said they responded to the crash just after 1 a.m. Investigation showed a man, later identified as Bernal, was driving eastbound at a high speed on 24th Street with no lights on when he collided with another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bernal was transported to a hospital where he later died. The other driver had minor injuries and was treated at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD said impairment appears to be a factor in this crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with any information on this crash is asked to contact BPD at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A man is dead after a head-on collision on 24th Street Saturday, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5092,151,153,152,324,5281,147574],"class_list":["post-363232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-24th-street","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-coroners-office","tag-steven-rene-bernal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363232","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=363232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}