{"id":75929,"date":"2025-11-30T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:04:03","slug":"driver-dies-in-two-vehicle-crash-on-elmo-highway-in-mcfarland-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/75929\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies in two-vehicle crash on Elmo Highway in McFarland: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver died Thursday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Elmo Highway and Kendra Street, the McFarland Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>At 12:58 p.m., officers responded to the intersection regarding a crash. When they arrived, they found two vehicles involved in a crash and determined that one of the drivers had reported significant injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel responded and attempted to save the driver&#8217;s life. The driver died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office will release the driver&#8217;s identity at a later time, once the family is notified.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are still investigating the scene as of 2 p.m. Drivers are advised to drive with caution in the area and to expect traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not made any arrests at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the McFarland Police Department at (661) 792-2121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A driver died Thursday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Elmo Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-75929","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75929","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=75929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}