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…