{"id":457353,"date":"2026-09-08T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:18:09","slug":"coroner-identifies-three-taft-men-killed-in-copus-road-head-on-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457353\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies three Taft men killed in Copus Road head-on crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the three people killed in a crash on Copus Road<\/a> as 43-year-old Jacobo Yesca Paz, 54-year-old Pablo Galindo Quiahua, and 35-year-old Raul Velasco Torres, all of Taft.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Three dead, four hurt after head-on crash on Copus Road<\/a><\/p>\n

The California Highway Patrol said on August 28, 2026, at around 5:22 a.m., officers were called to a report of a two-vehicle traffic crash on Copus Road, west of Old River Road.<\/p>\n

CHP said a preliminary investigation found that Yesca Paz was driving a 2003 Nissan Sentra eastbound on Copus Road west of Old River Road. A 60-year-old Bakersfield man was driving a 2005 Honda Odyssey westbound on Copus Road west of Old River Road, approaching the Nissan.<\/p>\n

CHP said for reasons under investigation, the Nissan went into the westbound lane of Copus Road, where the two vehicles collided head-on.<\/p>\n

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According to CHP, Yesca Paz and two passengers of the Nissan, Galindo Quiahua and Velasco Torres, were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Two additional passengers in the Nissan sustained minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n

The driver and passenger of the Honda sustained minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n

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CHP said the use of alcohol and\/ or drugs as a factor in this crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the three people killed in a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-457353","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\/457353","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=457353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}