{"id":463602,"date":"2026-09-14T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463602\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:42:10","slug":"coroner-identifies-utah-man-killed-in-fiery-hotel-parking-lot-crash-on-marriott-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463602\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies Utah man killed in fiery hotel parking lot crash on Marriott Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/driver-dies-after-vehicle-hits-parked-cars-erupts-in-flames-at-hotel-parking-lot-kern-county-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man who died after crashing into several parked cars with his vehicle catching fire <\/a>at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott as 45-year-old Omar Marlyn Archie of West Jordan, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/driver-dies-after-vehicle-hits-parked-cars-erupts-in-flames-at-hotel-parking-lot-kern-county-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Driver dies after vehicle hits parked cars, erupts in flames at hotel parking lot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 4:53 a.m., officers were called to the 3800 block of Marriott Drive regarding a single vehicle versus parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the vehicle fully engulfed and the driver still in the driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A driver died after their vehicle crashed into parked cars, caught fire, and was fully engulfed early Tuesday morning at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Bakersfield. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789411329_173_a83e87af-b5a4-4689-ba18-39c9e8c5b998-Sequence_MILLS_SPRINGHILLCARFIRE_0001_frame_2021.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A driver died after their vehicle crashed into parked cars, caught fire, and was fully engulfed early Tuesday morning at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Bakersfield. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Fire Department responded, extinguished the fire, and pronounced the driver dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was identified as 45-year-old Omar Marlyn Archie of West Jordan, Utah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the man who died after crashing into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-463602","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\/463602","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=463602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}