{"id":54027,"date":"2025-11-15T04:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54027\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:19:37","slug":"man-sentenced-for-deadly-high-speed-crash-in-nw-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54027\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for deadly high-speed crash in NW Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A man who authorities say drove 99 mph before crashing into an SUV in northwest Bakersfield, killing a school counselor, was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ismael Alfaro-Marquez also was sentenced to two years\u2019 probation. He pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just before midnight on April 6, 2021, Alfaro-Marquez\u2019s vehicle slammed into an SUV driven by Carrie Cuca Lopez at Calloway Drive and Turnwater Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 43-year-old counselor at Vista High School was thrown from the SUV. She wasn\u2019t wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a court filing, Alfaro-Marquez was traveling north on Calloway when Lopez \u201cmade a left turn to go into the neighborhood not expecting him to be traveling twice the posted speed limit\u201d of 50 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A man who authorities say drove 99 mph before crashing into an SUV in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[33946,151,153,152,33944,328,16552,20432,33945],"class_list":["post-54027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-alfaro-marquez","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-carrie-cuca-lopez","tag-kget","tag-northwest-bakersfield","tag-prosecutors","tag-school-counselor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54027","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=54027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}