BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A motorcyclist is dead after a crash in Frazier Park Monday morning.<\/p>\n
According to the California Highway Patrol, Fort Tejon Area units responded to reports of a crash between a vehicle and a motorcycle on Monday morning at 6:09 a.m. on Frazier Mountain Park Road, east of Mt. Pinos Way.<\/p>\n
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that a 65-year-old man was riding a motorcycle on westbound on Frazier Mountain Park Road. CHP said a 27-year-old man was also driving a Chevrolet SUV westbound on Frazier Mountain Park Road and was approaching the motorcyclist from behind.<\/p>\n
The SUV then crashed into the back of the motorcycle. The rider was ejected, hitting the SUV’s windshield.<\/p>\n
The motorcyclist died from his injuries. The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the motorcyclist as James Bradley Stearns of Frazier Park.<\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n
CHP said impairment was not considered a factor for the 27-year-old SUV driver.<\/p>\n
It is still unknown if impairment was a factor for the motorcycle rider.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call CHP Fort Tejon at (661) 248-6655.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A motorcyclist is dead after a crash in Frazier Park Monday morning. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-366764","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\/366764","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=366764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}