{"id":514528,"date":"2026-10-31T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/514528\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:20:08","slug":"woman-struck-and-killed-by-bpd-patrol-vehicle-in-sw-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/514528\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman struck and killed by BPD patrol vehicle in SW Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a crash involving a woman who was struck by a BPD patrol vehicle early Saturday morning in southwest Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on Oct. 31, 2026, at around 2:45 a.m. in the 7600 block of White Lane, when a woman walked in front of the patrol vehicle that was headed eastbound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said she came from the south side of the street and was not in a crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the officer was responding to a call for service at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The woman died shortly later at the scene. The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office will identify the woman at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to contact the Bakersfield Police Department Traffic Division at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating a crash involving a woman who was struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-514528","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\/514528","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=514528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}