{"id":389671,"date":"2026-07-07T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389671\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:02:04","slug":"chp-80-year-old-man-dies-in-dirt-bike-crash-near-renfro-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389671\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP: 80-year-old man dies in dirt bike crash near Renfro Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An 80-year-old Bakersfield man died Tuesday morning after crashing his dirt bike in a dirt field near Renfro and Brimhall roads.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said on Tuesday, July 7, at around 9:47 a.m., officers were called to a report of a motorcycle down in a dirt field southwest from the corner of Renfro Road and Brimhall Road.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said a preliminary investigation found that an 80-year-old Bakersfield man was riding a 2024 Honda dirt bike on a dirt field adjacent to Renfro Road and Brimhall Road, in a westerly direction.<\/p>\n<p>According to CHP, for reasons still under investigation, the 80-year-old man and the dirt bike collided with the dirt roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Fire personnel arrived on scene and pronounced the 80-year-old man dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An 80-year-old Bakersfield man died Tuesday morning after crashing his dirt bike in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-389671","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\/389671","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=389671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}