BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the three people killed in a crash on Copus Road as 43-year-old Jacobo Yesca Paz, 54-year-old Pablo Galindo Quiahua, and 35-year-old Raul Velasco Torres, all of Taft.
The California Highway Patrol said on August 28, 2026, at around 5:22 a.m., officers were called to a report of a two-vehicle traffic crash on Copus Road, west of Old River Road.
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that Yesca Paz was driving a 2003 Nissan Sentra eastbound on Copus Road west of Old River Road. A 60-year-old Bakersfield man was driving a 2005 Honda Odyssey westbound on Copus Road west of Old River Road, approaching the Nissan…