BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who died after a crash on Interstate 5 as 75-year-old Kent Trochelman of Owosso, Michigan.
The California Highway Patrol said on June 2, 2025, at around 6:20 p.m., officers were called to a solo-vehicle crash on southbound I-5, south of Highway 46.
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that Trochelman was driving a 2018 Jeep Compass southbound on Interstate 5, south of Highway 46, at a high rate of speed…