{"id":39649,"date":"2025-11-05T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:34:11","slug":"coroner-ids-woman-in-deadly-east-bakersfield-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39649\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s woman in deadly east Bakersfield wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 65-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle early Aug. 3 in east Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said Mariana Cervantes Flores, 65, was struck by a vehicle in the intersection of Mount Vernon Avenue and Oregon Street, just before 2 a.m. on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flores was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of an unknown white pickup truck was going southbound on Mount Vernon Avenue in the number 2 lane, approaching Oregon Street and the woman at an unknown speed, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/national-news\/snap-deadline-what-happens-to-unused-benefits-on-your-ebt-card-after-nov-1\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SNAP deadline: What happens to unused benefits on your EBT card after Nov. 1?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> SNAP deadline: What happens to unused benefits on your EBT card after Nov. 1? <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver then struck Flores, according to CHP. She was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said it\u2019s unknown if alcohol or drugs played a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about or may have witnessed the incident is asked to contact the CHP Bakersfield Area office at 661-396-6600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 65-year-old woman who was struck by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,27148,27149],"class_list":["post-39649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-mariana-cervantes-flores","tag-mount-vernon-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39649","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=39649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}