{"id":475767,"date":"2026-09-25T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475767\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:11:16","slug":"bakersfield-pd-searches-for-man-suspected-of-hit-and-run-crash-that-critically-injured-child-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475767\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield PD searches for man suspected of hit-and-run crash that critically injured child, 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in finding a suspect in a hit-and-run crash in south Bakersfield Thursday afternoon that critically injured a 5-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bakersfield Police Department is searching for Gael Garcia, 22. Garcia is the suspected driver of a vehicle that ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle in the area of Tyree Toliver and Wilkins Street. He then fled on foot, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"409\" height=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kget_bakersfield_articles_800\/81e0a2d1ec131a263e7fd08688f8b358.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Garcia is described as 5 feet, 10 inches tall, about 140 pounds with dark hair. He was last seen wearing a black shirt and jeans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two children and one adult were in the vehicle that Garcia allegedly struck. One of the children was airlifted to the Children&#8217;s Hospital in Madera and is in stable but critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information regarding Garcia is asked to contact the police department at 661-283-1717.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in finding a suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,186962,328,186669],"class_list":["post-475767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-gael-garcia","tag-kget","tag-tyree-toliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475767","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=475767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}