{"id":41075,"date":"2025-11-06T17:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41075\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:45:06","slug":"coroner-identifies-24-year-old-man-killed-in-high-speed-crash-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41075\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 24-year-old man killed in high-speed crash in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-killed-in-high-speed-crash-in-northwest-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">man who died in a high-speed crash and hit a tree in northwest Bakersfield<\/a> as 24-year-old Daniel Chavez Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/man-killed-in-high-speed-crash-in-northwest-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Man killed in high-speed crash in northwest Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on September 25th, 2025, at around 1:34 a.m., officers were called to a solo-vehicle crash in the 11500 block of Hageman Road.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found Cruz partially ejected from a blue GMC Acadia, which had hit a tree.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Bakersfield Police Department said that a man had died after a crash on September 25th. (Photo:KBAK\/FOX58)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6065275a-a476-471e-8fda-81e8d779948f-HagemanRoadCrash5_frame_99.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said that a man had died after a crash on September 25th. (Photo:KBAK\/FOX58)<\/p>\n<p>Police said a preliminary investigation found that the driver was going westbound at a high rate of speed when, for an unknown reason, lost control and hit a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who died in a high-speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-41075","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\/41075","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=41075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}