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<\/p>\nBAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A pickup truck driver died after rear-ending a vehicle slowing for a crossing guard and children on Columbus Street in Bakersfield Thursday afternoon. Police said speed and possible intoxication may have contributed.<\/p>\n
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Thursday, October 29th, 2026, at around 2:22 p.m., officers were called to the intersection of Columbus Street and Bucknell Street for a crash.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found the driver, who was the sole occupant of an older model pick-up truck, inside his vehicle suffering from severe injuries. The man was pronounced dead by medical personnel.<\/p>\n
According to police, a preliminary investigation found that the driver of the truck was traveling westbound when it collided into the back of a second vehicle that was slowing down for a crossing guard escorting children across the street.<\/p>\n
Police said the driver of the second vehicle was not hurt, nor was the crossing guard or any children.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield police said speed and intoxication are believed to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n
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A pickup driver died after rear-ending a vehicle slowing for a crossing guard and children on Columbus Street in Bakersfield Thursday afternoon. Police said speed and possible intoxication may have contributed. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n
The crash happened in the 1100 block of Columbus Street, an east\/west street consisting of two lanes of travel in each direction. The east\/westbound lanes are divided by a raised center divider, with a left-turn storage lane for eastbound Columbus Street to turn northbound Bucknell Street, and a left-turn storage lane for westbound Columbus Street to private property on the south side of the street.<\/p>\n
The posted speed limit is 40 miles per hour, but due to the fact that children and a crossing guard were present, the area was an active school zone with a posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A pickup truck driver died after rear-ending a vehicle slowing for a crossing guard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-512402","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\/512402","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=512402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}