{"id":504929,"date":"2026-10-23T02:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504929\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:47:50","slug":"man-struck-by-vehicle-after-crossing-street-in-downtown-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504929\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck by vehicle after crossing street in downtown Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A man was left with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car while crossing a street in downtown Bakersfield, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said officers were dispatched to the intersection of 24th and Oak streets just before 11:45 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrived to find a man laying in the road with major injuries after being struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was then transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to BPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the driver of the vehicle stayed on scene and cooperated with officers following the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to BPD, the vehicle was driving eastbound on 24th Street when it struck the man who was crossing southbound in the crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with any information on this collision is asked to contact BPD at 661-327-7111.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 was left with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504929","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\/504929","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=504929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}