{"id":38130,"date":"2025-11-04T22:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38130\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:02:15","slug":"8-year-old-dies-after-being-hit-by-drunk-driver-near-bakersfield-food-truck-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38130\/","title":{"rendered":"8-year-old dies after being hit by drunk driver near Bakersfield food truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762293735_737_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=0hzmyp_16HLx0f900\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An 8-year-old boy has died after being struck by a suspected drunk driver Monday evening in East Bakersfield, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near a food truck on East California Avenue and Haley Street. The boy, who was initially in critical condition, died due to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 33-year-old Andres Serna, who now faces a murder charge. This marks Serna&#8217;s third DUI conviction, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A man was also hit in the crash, though his condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Serna was determined to be under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash, police said. He was hospitalized before being booked at Lerdo Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Serna is expected to appear in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 8-year-old boy has died after being struck by a suspected drunk driver Monday evening in East Bakersfield,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[26401,151,153,152,26,14242,23,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-38130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-8-year-old-dies-after-being-hit-by-drunk-driver-near-bakersfield-food-truck","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-breaking-news","13":"tag-kero-23-bakersfield","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-newsbreak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38130","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=38130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}