{"id":39952,"date":"2025-11-06T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39952\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:24:06","slug":"bicyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-on-weedpatch-highway-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39952\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist killed in hit-and-run crash on Weedpatch Highway identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A bicyclist who was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver on Oct. 26 on Weedpatch Highway has been identified as Marcio Cardiel, 32, of Bakersfield, said the Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-killed-in-crash-on-weedpatch-highway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bicyclist killed in Weedpatch Highway hit-and-run crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cardiel was found at 9:40 p.m. on Weedpatch Highway, north of Muller Road. The time of the collision remains unknown. <\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation by CHP revealed that Cardiel was riding his bicycle northbound near the east road edge of Weedpatch Highway when an unknown vehicle, also traveling northbound, struck him from behind.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiel was ejected and landed on the east dirt shoulder of the highway. <\/p>\n<p>The involvement of alcohol or drugs in the crash is still under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>CHP asks anyone with information or who may have witnessed the incident to contact the CHP Bakersfield Area Office at (661) 396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A bicyclist who was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver on Oct. 26 on Weedpatch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-39952","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\/39952","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=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}