{"id":445675,"date":"2026-08-28T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445675\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:52:19","slug":"crash-on-east-lerdo-highway-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445675\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash on East Lerdo Highway under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A late-night crash prompted a road closure on East Lerdo Highway near Zerker Road, and authorities are investigating what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at East Lerdo Highway and Zerker Road at around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to reports. East Lerdo Highway was closed from North Driver Road to Zerker Road just after 11 p.m., according to Shafter police.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was not immediately available. Shafter police have been contacted for more details.<\/p>\n<p>The story will be updated as additional information is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A late-night crash prompted a road closure on East Lerdo Highway near Zerker Road,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-445675","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\/445675","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=445675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}