BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Wible Road as 36-year-old Matthew David Harper of Bakersfield.
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Wednesday, August 19th, 2026, at 9:20 p.m., officers were dispatched to the 2000 block of Wible Road with a report of a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian.
When officers arrived, they found Harper down in the roadway suffering from “fatal injuries.”…