{"id":438682,"date":"2026-08-20T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438682\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:56:09","slug":"at-least-one-dead-after-crash-on-westbound-highway-58-near-fairfax-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438682\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one dead after crash on westbound Highway 58, near Fairfax Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 At least one person has died after a crash on westbound Highway 58 Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP\u2019s website said on Thursday, August 20, 2026, at around 11:33 a.m., there was a report of a two-vehicle crash on westbound Highway 58, near Fairfax Road.<\/p>\n<p>The website said there was a black trash can that caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, a pickup truck for the lost item arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"At least one person has died after a crash on westbound Highway 58 Thursday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0fed9149-732e-4996-8270-f77742a0a3a3-Image18.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least one person has died after a crash on westbound Highway 58 Thursday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The CHP\u2019s website said there was debris blocking the number one and two lanes.<\/p>\n<p>As of 12 p.m., it was requested that the number one westbound lane be closed.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"At least one person has died after a crash on westbound Highway 58 Thursday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d51d6eda-d71e-45a1-9348-dcceae263db4-Image16.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At least one person has died after a crash on westbound Highway 58 Thursday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The crash was listed as a fatality.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown who died or if anyone else was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 At least one person has died after a crash on westbound Highway 58 Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-438682","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\/438682","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=438682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}