{"id":417234,"date":"2026-07-29T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:31:31","slug":"woman-gets-7-years-in-deadly-crash-on-hwy-178-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417234\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman gets 7 years in deadly crash on Hwy 178 in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A woman who pleaded no contest to driving drunk in a crash that killed an occupant of a car parked on the shoulder of Highway 178 was sentenced to seven years in prison, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hisa Ann Castillo, 28, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading no contest earlier this year to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened around 1 a.m. on June 13, 2025, on Highway 178 near the Beale Avenue exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Saturn Ion was parked along the right shoulder of eastbound 178 as Castillo approached at high speed in a Hyundai Santa Fe, according to California Highway Patrol. The SUV drifted onto the right shoulder and slammed into the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alejandro Marix Manriquez-Chavez, 23, died at the scene, officers said. The Saturn&#8217;s other occupant was injured but survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A woman who pleaded no contest to driving drunk in a crash that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,859,2686,166880,105883,7349],"class_list":["post-417234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-highway-178","tag-hisa-ann-castillo","tag-pleading-no-contest","tag-vehicular-manslaughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417234","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=417234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}