{"id":452209,"date":"2026-09-03T12:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452209\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:50:33","slug":"trial-date-set-in-hit-and-run-union-avenue-crash-that-led-to-17-year-olds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452209\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial date set in hit-and-run Union Avenue crash that led to 17-year-old&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-pedestrian-killed-in-union-avenue-hit-and-run-after-exiting-vehicle-bakersfield-police-department-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hitting and killing a 17-year-old girl on Union Avenue last month with a vehicle<\/a> was arraigned on Wednesday and faces a pending trial date in October.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Ferguson, 67, was arraigned on Wednesday and re-entered a not guilty plea to hit-and-run causing death or injury, driving on a suspended or revoked license for DUI, and driving while addicted to drugs. <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/court-records-man-67-to-be-arraigned-in-teens-hit-and-run-death-crime-union-avenue-la-mesa-drive-pedestrian-bakersfield-police-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">He also pleaded not guilty last month<\/a>. Ferguson faces a pending trial on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on July 18 at about 10:45 p.m., when Bakersfield police were called to the 3600 block of Union Avenue for a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found 17-year-old Love Icelyn Dixon down in the road with severe injuries, police said. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police said their investigation determined Dixon had gotten out of a vehicle that had stopped in the No. 1 lane of northbound Union Avenue when she was struck by another vehicle traveling north in the No. 2 lane. Police said the driver did not stop and drove away immediately after the crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/flock-cameras-called-invaluable-as-bpd-tracks-suspect-in-union-avenue-fatal-hit-run-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakerfield police said Flock safety cameras assisted officers in the arrest of Ferguson on August 5, calling them \u201cinvaluable.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is scheduled to appear on Oct. 9 for a readiness hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man accused of hitting and killing a 17-year-old girl on Union Avenue last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-452209","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\/452209","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=452209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}