A 12-year-old girl was killed, and a 10-year-old girl was injured following a hit-and-run crash in Bakersfield Friday night. <\/p>\n
According to the California Highway Patrol, officers were called to Edison Highway at Fairfax Road after receiving reports of a crash just before 7:30 p.m. Friday. <\/p>\n
When they arrived, they learned that a driver was headed westbound on Edison Road when “for reasons still under investigation, a 12-year-old female pedestrian and 10-year-old female pedestrian walked across the westbound lanes of Edison Highway, outside of a crosswalk.”<\/p>\n
The driver hit both pedestrians. The 12-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene and the 10-year-old was taken to the hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n
The driver fled the scene, CHP said. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call CHP-Bakersfield at 661-396-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old girl was killed, and a 10-year-old girl was injured following a hit-and-run crash in Bakersfield Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-524178","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\/524178","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=524178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}