{"id":461195,"date":"2026-09-12T02:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461195\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T02:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:47:02","slug":"kern-county-officials-id-man-killed-in-crash-on-wildwood-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461195\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County officials ID man killed in crash on Wildwood Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County coroner\u2019s office has identified the 55-year-old man who was killed in a traffic collision earlier this week as Jose Manuel Mendez Camacho, of Avenal. <\/p>\n

According to the California Highway Patrol, Camacho was operating a 2006 Chevrolet eastbound on Highway 46 at Wildwood Road in Wasco when he collided with a 43-year-old man, who was driving a 2026 Ford westbound on Highway 46.<\/p>\n

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CHP previously said the driver of the Ford failed to yield at the intersection<\/a> and turned into the path of the Chevrolet, crashing into the side of the vehicle, around 6:16 a.m. on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

Officials said Camacho died at the scene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County coroner\u2019s office has identified the 55-year-old man who was killed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-461195","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\/461195","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=461195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}