{"id":370411,"date":"2026-06-22T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:00:09","slug":"woman-suspected-of-dui-in-crash-with-kcso-transport-van-in-bakersfield-dies-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370411\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman suspected of DUI in crash with KCSO transport van in Bakersfield dies, ID&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 36-year-old Bakersfield woman suspected of driving under the influence after crashing into a Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office transport vehicle in downtown Bakersfield on June 11 has died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/36-year-old-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-after-hitting-kcso-transport-van-24th-street-bakersfield-california-kern-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: 36-year-old arrested on suspicion of DUI after hitting KCSO transport van<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernice Bravo Manzo died June 14 at Kern Medical, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said Manzo was driving a black sedan on June 11, 2026, at 2:55 a.m. when she crashed into a KCSO transport vehicle at Chester Avenue and 24th Street. Four people were injured, including three inmates and the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said a preliminary investigation found Manzo was driving westbound on 24th Street at an excessive speed and allegedly ran a red light, hitting the KCSO transport vehicle as it traveled southbound on Chester Avenue and approached the intersection on a green light.<\/p>\n<p>Manzo initially suffered minor to moderate injuries, and law enforcement determined she was driving under the influence, CHP said. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and arrested on suspicion of felony DUI before dying on June 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 36-year-old Bakersfield woman suspected of driving under the influence after crashing into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-370411","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\/370411","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=370411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}