{"id":71466,"date":"2025-11-27T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71466\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:59:13","slug":"motorcyclist-left-with-major-injuries-after-crash-in-nw-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71466\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist left with major injuries after crash in NW Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A 54-year-old motorcyclist was left with major injuries after a crash in northwest Bakersfield Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash was reported around 3:14 p.m. in the area of Renfro Road and Greatest Place, according to the California Highway Patrol Traffic Incident Information Page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP said a 56-year-old man was traveling northbound on Renfro Road in a white van and making a left turn onto Greatest Place at about 10 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the same time, a 54-year-old motorcyclist was going southbound at an unknown speed. Officials said the van turned in front of the motorcycle and the motorcycle tried to swerve to avoid the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The motorcyclist was taken to Kern Medical Center with major injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP said DUI is not a factor in this crash.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 54-year-old motorcyclist was left with major injuries after a crash in northwest Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,41997,17410],"class_list":{"0":"post-71466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-greatest-place","12":"tag-motorcyclist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71466","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=71466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}