A Bakersfield man is facing vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run charges after a woman was struck and killed along Belle Terrace late Saturday night, and investigators say speed and impairment may have played a role.
Bakersfield Police Department officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Belle Terrace at approximately 9:50 p.m. on March 14, 2026, in response to a vehicle versus pedestrian collision. Officers arrived to find an adult female pedestrian with major injuries. Emergency medical personnel pronounced her dead at the scene.
Preliminary investigation indicates the woman was on the south shoulder of the roadway when an eastbound vehicle veered off the road and struck her. Witnesses described the suspect vehicle as a dark sedan that fled the area eastbound after the collision…