{"id":439917,"date":"2026-08-22T00:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439917\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:08:47","slug":"chp-identifies-tulare-man-as-driver-of-wrong-way-bmw-in-deadly-highway-99-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439917\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP identifies Tulare man as driver of wrong-way BMW in deadly Highway 99 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol had identified the vehicle that went the wrong way on Highway 99 as a BMW and the driver as 44-year-old Jamie Rodriguez of Tulare.<\/p>\n

The California Highway Patrol said on Sunday, August 16, 2026, at around 12:44 a.m., officers responded to a three-vehicle wrong-way crash <\/a>on southbound Highway 99, north of 7th Standard Road.<\/p>\n

CHP said the crash involved a 2022 Honda Accord, a 2019 BMW 530i, and a 2022 Chevrolet Colorado.<\/p>\n

CHP said on Friday, August 21, that the vehicle traveling in the wrong direction was the BMW.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Three killed, three injured in fiery wrong-way crash on Highway 99 in Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n

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Three people were killed, and three others were hurt in a fiery three-vehicle wrong-way crash on southbound Highway 99 near 7th Standard Road early Sunday morning. PHOTO: KNN.NEWS<\/p>\n

As a result of the crash, the Honda immediately became engulfed in flames, and all three people inside died, according to CHP.<\/p>\n

The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the three killed as 41-year-old Vanessa Sue Wetmore, 20-year-old Kylie Wetmore, and 16-year-old Kloie Wetmore, all of Bakersfield. The coroner’s reports said Kylie was the driver of the vehicle and Vanessa and Kloie were the passengers.<\/p>\n

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A GoFundMe was created for a mother and two daughters who were killed in a wrong-way fiery crash on Highway 99 in Bakersfield early Sunday morning. PHOTO: KNN.NEWS\/Dale Schoettler, GoFundMe<\/p>\n

According to the GoFundMe, the mother and two daughters were heading home from Fresno after a concert.<\/p>\n

RELATED: GoFundMe set up for mother, two daughters killed in Hwy. 99 wrong-way crash in Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n

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A GoFundMe was created for a mother and two daughters who were killed in a wrong-way fiery crash on Highway 99 in Bakersfield early Sunday morning. PHOTO: GoFundMe<\/p>\n

CHP said the driver of BMW was identified as 44-year-old Jamie Rodriguez of Tulare.<\/p>\n

CHP said all other aspects of the crash are still under investigation, including charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol had identified the vehicle that went the wrong way on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-439917","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\/439917","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=439917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}