{"id":415371,"date":"2026-07-28T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415371\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:40:07","slug":"coroner-identifies-61-year-old-man-killed-in-front-of-discovery-church-in-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415371\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 61-year-old man killed in front of Discovery Church in February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who died after a crash in front of Discovery Church on White Lane<\/a> back in February as 61-year-old Martin De Santiago of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Man dies after White Lane crash on Sunday near Discovery Church; BPD investigating crash<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bakersfield Police Department said on Sunday, February 8, 2026, at around 11:40 a.m., officers were called to the 7000 block of White Lane regarding a crash.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they found one of the drivers suffering from severe injuries. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment. On Wednesday, February 11th, the Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office contacted the Bakersfield Police Department Traffic Division to advise that the driver had died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

The coroner\u2019s report identified the man as Santiago.<\/p>\n

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The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who died after a crash in front of Discovery Church on White Lane back in February as 61-year-old Martin De Santiago of Bakersfield. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n

Police said the investigation found that the injured driver had been traveling westbound and made an unprotected left turn in front of eastbound traffic when the crash happened.<\/p>\n

Discovery Church made a social media post in February that has since been deleted, offering condolences, saying that Santiago was one of their church members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who died after a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-415371","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\/415371","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=415371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}