BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the driver who died after hitting the tree as 85-year-old Dale Edward Carver of Salem, Oregon.
The California Highway Patrol said on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at around 12:02 p.m., officers were called to southbound Highway 99, north of Houghton Road for a report of a solo-vehicle crash involving a pickup truck.
CHP said a preliminary investigation found that an unknown person was driving a 2011 Dodge Ram southbound on Highway 99, north of Houghton Road, within an unknown lane, at an unknown rate of speed…