BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Two drivers are severely injured after one of the drivers tried to pass another vehicle and collided head-on with a car on Highway 43 Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol said on November 25, 2025, at around 9:22 a.m., officers were called to a call of a two-vehicle crash on Highway 43, south of Interstate 5.<\/p>\n
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that a 31-year-old Bakersfield man was driving a 2006 Toyota Sienna southbound on Highway 43, south of Interstate 5, passing another vehicle.<\/p>\n
At the same time, a 26-year-old Taft woman was driving a 2018 BMW X1 northbound on Highway 43, approaching the Toyota\u2019s location.<\/p>\n
According to CHP, witnesses stated the driver of the Toyota was traveling at an unsafe speed and making an unsafe pass on another vehicle when he collided head-on with the BMW.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Toyota was ejected during the crash.<\/p>\n
The driver of the BMW was pinned in her vehicle until rescued by the Kern County Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Both drivers sustained severe injuries as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n
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CHP said it is unknown if alcohol or drugs were a factor in this crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Two drivers are severely injured after one of the drivers tried to pass another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-69678","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\/69678","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=69678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}