{"id":498611,"date":"2026-10-16T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498611\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:42:16","slug":"bakersfield-man-due-back-in-court-on-dui-injury-charges-stemming-from-april-2023-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498611\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man due back in court on DUI injury charges stemming from April 2023 arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A man accused of driving drunk and on the wrong side of Union Avenue in April 2023, &#8220;causing multiple injury collisions,&#8221; is due back in court later this month to schedule a trial date, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zachary Guy Johnson, 50, is facing felony counts of DUI causing injury and driving the wrong way on a divided highway causing injury. His next hearing is set for Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the afternoon of April 14, 2023, a Bakersfield police officer arrived in the 1400 block of Union Avenue to a report of a vehicle crash and found a man, later identified as Johnson, who &#8220;appeared agitated and was combative with emergency personnel,&#8221; according to a court filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson had dilated pupils, body tremors, elevated heart rate and an &#8220;aggressive demeanor,&#8221; the officer noted in the filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A witness advised units she observed Johnson driving his vehicle wrong way on Union Avenue, causing multiple injury collisions,&#8221; the officer wrote in the filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police determined Johnson was intoxicated and arrested him.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 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; A man accused of driving drunk and on the wrong side of Union Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-498611","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\/498611","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=498611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}