Coroner identifies two men killed in Highway 99 crash, two others injured

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified the two people killed in the Highway 99 crash on August 8 as Alexes Napoleon Perez Rivera and Samuel Ignacio Hernandez Cervantes, both 20 years old.

The California Highway Patrol responded to a report of a solo-vehicle crash on Friday, August 8, just after 11 p.m.

CHP said a 20-year-old man was driving a Chevrolet Silverado southbound on Highway 99 at a high rate of speed. The driver then allowed the truck to veer onto the west shoulder, where it struck a metal guardrail…

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