BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office identified the driver and passenger who died after their vehicle crashed into a guardrail on Highway 99 on Friday.
Alexes Napoleon Perez Rivera, 20, of Bakersfield, was the driver of a vehicle that was traveling southbound on Highway 99 north of Union Avenue at 11:17 p.m., according to coroner’s officials.
Rivera then hit the metal guardrail and the vehicle lost control, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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Samuel Ignacio Hernandez Cervantes, also a 20-year-old man from Bakersfield, was a passenger in the vehicle and was ejected…