BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified the driver killed in a solo-vehicle crash that resulted in an over 500-acre brush fire along Highway 58 as 28-year-old Eric Daniel Garcia of Bakersfield.
The California Highway Patrol said on Friday, June 19, 2026, at around 4:30 p.m., officers were called to westbound Highway 58, east of General Beale Road, for a report of a crash involving a vehicle that had gone down an embankment.
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that Garcia was driving a 2013 Hyundai Azera westbound on Highway 58, east of General Beale Road, at a speed in excess of the posted speed limit…