{"id":463646,"date":"2026-09-14T19:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:30:26","slug":"coroner-identifies-bakersfield-man-who-died-from-heat-exposure-on-hwy-58-on-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463646\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies Bakersfield man who died from heat exposure on Hwy. 58 on-ramp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died from heat exposure as 53-year-old Hannes Michael Wood of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s report said on July 18, 2026, at around 5:14 p.m., Wood was found on the westbound Highway 58 on-ramp, near H Street.<\/p>\n<p>He was found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to the coroner\u2019s report, an autopsy was conducted; the cause of death was determined to be from methamphetamine toxicity and environmental heat exposure. The manner was an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died from heat exposure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-463646","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\/463646","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=463646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}