{"id":43140,"date":"2025-11-07T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:20:21","slug":"65-year-old-woman-killed-in-east-bakersfield-hit-and-run-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43140\/","title":{"rendered":"65-year-old woman killed in east Bakersfield hit-and-run identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 65-year-old woman identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-county-coroners-office-seeks-public-help-to-locate-next-of-kin-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mariana Cervantes Flores<\/a> of Bakersfield was struck and killed by a hit-and-run vehicle in east Bakersfield back in August, according to the Kern County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at 1:43 a.m. on August 3, 2025, at the intersection of Mount Vernon Avenue and Oregon Street. Flores died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>CHP Bakersfield Area units responded to the scene at approximately 1:46 a.m. for a report of a traffic crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian. Before CHP&#8217;s arrival, the driver of the vehicle fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>CHP&#8217;s investigation said that Flores was walking southbound on Mount Vernon Avenue, outside of a marked crosswalk, when she was struck by a white-colored pickup truck traveling in the same direction. The driver, who remains unidentified, fled the scene after the collision. <\/p>\n<p>CHP asks anyone who has information or may have witnessed this incident to contact the CHP Bakersfield Area office at (661) 396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 65-year-old woman identified as Mariana Cervantes Flores of Bakersfield was struck and killed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-43140","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\/43140","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=43140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}