{"id":504439,"date":"2026-10-22T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504439\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:32:08","slug":"man-hospitalized-after-struck-by-vehicle-while-crossing-crosswalk-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504439\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hospitalized after struck by vehicle while crossing crosswalk in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A pedestrian was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle while crossing in a crosswalk at 24th and Oak streets in Bakersfield late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on Wednesday, October 21st, 2026, at 11:43 p.m., officers were called to the intersection of 24th Street and Oak Street for a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a man down in the roadway suffering from severe injuries after being struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the vehicle remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, through the investigation, officers learned the vehicle was traveling eastbound on 24th Street when it struck the pedestrian crossing southbound in the crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 24th Street at Oak Street is controlled by 4-way automated traffic signals, which appeared to be working properly at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department Traffic Division at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A pedestrian was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504439","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\/504439","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=504439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}