{"id":515762,"date":"2026-11-02T06:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/515762\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:32:11","slug":"at-least-one-person-believed-killed-in-southwest-bakersfield-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/515762\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one person believed killed in southwest Bakersfield crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 At least one person is believed to have been killed following a crash on California Avenue near Business Center Drive on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police responded to the area shortly after 6:30 p.m. and closed off the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>An Eyewitness News crew at the scene saw what appeared to be a body covered by a yellow tarp.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not officially confirmed the death or released details about what caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether anyone else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 At least one person is believed to have been killed following a crash on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-515762","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\/515762","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=515762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}