{"id":36670,"date":"2025-11-04T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36670\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:04:25","slug":"father-and-son-hospitalized-after-hit-by-suspected-dui-driver-on-east-california-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36670\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son hospitalized after hit by suspected DUI driver on East California Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An eight-year-old boy and his father are hospitalized after being hit by a suspected DUI driver on East California Avenue on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Bakersfield Police Department said on November 3, 2025, at around 12:09 p.m., Bakersfield Police Department Officers were called to the 1400 block of East California Avenue for a crash.<\/p>\n

Police said during the preliminary investigation, it was determined a black Nissan pickup traveling westbound on East California Avenue, east of its intersection with Haley Street, veered northbound from the roadway for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n

The pickup truck drove through fencing and into a parking lot on the northeast corner, where a food truck was set up.<\/p>\n

A man and his eight-year-old son were hit by the Nissan pickup in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

The adult sustained moderate injuries and the juvenile sustained life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

Both were taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n

Police said the driver of the Nissan pickup truck, 33-year-old Andres Serna, was determined to be under the influence of alcohol and arrested for DUI. Serna sustained a minor injury and was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

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CREDIT: RD on the Scene<\/p>\n

After his release, he will be booked into Lerdo Justice Facility for applicable DUI-related charges.<\/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 An eight-year-old boy and his father are hospitalized after being hit by a suspected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-36670","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\/36670","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=36670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}