{"id":5706,"date":"2025-10-15T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5706\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:13:41","slug":"coroner-identifies-31-year-old-man-killed-in-norris-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5706\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 31-year-old man killed in Norris Road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died after being struck by a vehicle on Norris Road as 31-year-old Jesus Torrez Loya Jr. of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Pedestrian struck and killed by car on Norris Road<\/a><\/p>\n

The California Highway Patrol said on Thursday, October 9, 2025, at around 8:55 p.m., officers were called to Norris Road, east of Stockton Avenue, for a report of a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/a><\/p>\n

CHP said a preliminary investigation found that a 27-year-old Bakersfield man was driving a 2010 silver Toyota Corolla eastbound on Norris Road, east of Stockton Avenue, in the number one lane, at about 45 miles per hour.<\/p>\n

For reasons still under investigation, Torrez Loya Jr. was crossing southbound on Norris Road from the north shoulder, outside of a marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n

The driver of the Toyota was unable to take evasive action and subsequently struck the him, according to CHP.<\/p>\n

Torrez Loya Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Toyota immediately stopped nearby and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n

CHP said it is unknown if alcohol and\/or drugs were a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died after being struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,859,350,6166,5083,1490,984,6167],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-crash","tag-jesus-torrez-loya-jr","tag-kern-county-coroner","tag-norris-road","tag-pedestrian","tag-toyota-corolla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","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=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}