{"id":39937,"date":"2025-11-06T00:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39937\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:12:29","slug":"teen-passenger-identified-by-coroner-in-fatal-lerdo-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39937\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen passenger identified by coroner in fatal Lerdo Highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An 18-year-old passenger who died following a crash on Lerdo Highway has been identified as Abraham Lopez of Shafter, according to the Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened when the 18-year-old male driver of a 2006 Ford Windstar van failed to stop at a stop sign, leading to a collision with a 2023 Ford F250 pickup. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, at around 6:09 p.m. at the intersection of Lerdo Highway and Scaroni Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/firefighters-rescue-two-people-trapped-in-canal-after-crash-near-shafter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teen passenger dies after crash sends van into reservoir in Shafter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol reported that the van, driven by an 18-year-old Shafter man, was struck by the pickup, driven by a 23-year-old Shafter man, causing the van to end up partially submerged in a water canal. <\/p>\n<p>Good Samaritans and firefighters worked to rescue those trapped in the van. <\/p>\n<p>Lopez died from his injuries at Kern Medical the following morning. <\/p>\n<p>The driver of the pickup sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said alcohol and\/or drugs did not appear to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An 18-year-old passenger who died following a crash on Lerdo Highway has been identified as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-39937","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\/39937","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=39937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}