{"id":400291,"date":"2026-07-16T04:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400291\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:18:14","slug":"bakersfield-police-seek-driver-in-hit-and-run-that-injured-man-on-wilson-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400291\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seek driver in hit-and-run that injured man on Wilson Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver fled after a hit-and-run crash injured a man in southwest Bakersfield on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened around 3:18 p.m. in the 4000 block of Wilson Road near Akers Road, where a man was struck by a vehicle. The man suffered moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy: RD On The Scene\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dfeedf14-cd19-4847-bc05-47f77794d48a-pedestriancrash_frame_5814.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Courtesy: RD On The Scene<\/p>\n<p>The driver left the area after the crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect&#8217;s vehicle is described as a dark-colored blue or black sedan.<\/p>\n<p>Third-party footage showed a Bakersfield police vehicle, fire engine, and Hall ambulance blocking Wilson Road, which has since been cleared.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy: RD On The Scene\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/778c872f-25e9-43fc-b507-5748532172e3-pedestriancrash_frame_24088.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Courtesy: RD On The Scene<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver fled after a hit-and-run crash injured a man in southwest Bakersfield on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-400291","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\/400291","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=400291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}