South H Street and Houghton Road for a two-vehicle crash.<\/a><\/p>\nCHP said traffic at this intersection is regulated by posted stop signs to protect motorists. According to CHP, a preliminary investigation found that a 33-year-old man was driving a 2011 Chevrolet Impala westbound on Houghton Road, east of South H Street. The Impala came to a complete stop at the intersection of Houghton Road and South H Street.<\/p>\n
The Impala then began to make a southbound turn onto South H Street from westbound Houghton Road. At the same time, a white 2008 Chevrolet Silverado driven by an unknown male was traveling eastbound on Houghton Road, just west of South H Street. The driver of the Silverado failed to stop at the posted stop sign and continued eastbound at an unknown speed, according to CHP.<\/p>\n
CHP said the front of the Silverado struck the right side of the Impala.<\/p>\n
CHP said the 33-year-old driver of the Impala sustained minor injuries as a result of the crash. A 45-year-old passenger in the Impala suffered moderate injuries and was taken to Kern Medical.<\/p>\n
Chipahua, seated in the front right passenger seat of the Impala, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The unknown male driver of the Silverado left the scene on foot in an unknown direction and is still outstanding.<\/p>\n
CHP said it is unknown at this time if alcohol and\/or drugs were a factor in this crash.<\/p>\n
CHP is asking anyone with information or who may have witnessed this incident to contact the Bakersfield Area CHP office at (661) 396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died after a hit-and-run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,859,5420,161,3830,5419,5421,5422,5280],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-chevrolet-silverado","tag-hit-and-run","tag-intersection","tag-south-h-street","tag-traffic-crash","tag-unknown-driver","tag-zacarias-ecahua-chipahua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","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=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}