A man was taken to Kern Medical with major injuries after an early Saturday rollover on eastbound Westside Parkway in Bakersfield, the California Highway Patrol said.
The CHP account, relayed by KGET 17 News, says the man was driving a 2011 Infiniti M37 that left the roadway and struck a chain-link fence. CHP did not release his name or age, or say what may have caused the crash. It remains unclear whether he was hospitalized beyond his initial transport to Kern Medical.
A Stretch of Roadway With a Troubled History
In a separate fatal motorcycle crash, the Kern County coroner's office reported that 29-year-old Jesus Alberto Garcia Cornejo of Bloomington died at the scene at 2:04 a.m. after his motorcycle struck a chain-link fence on the Westside Parkway just west of Coffee Road, according to bakersfield.com.
The parkway has seen other serious collisions over the past couple of years. In September 2025, at least one person suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle crash just east of Allen Road, as reported by bakersfieldnow.com. That crash happened just before 6 a.m. and involved a white Chevrolet pickup truck and another vehicle, with at least one driver reported unconscious at the scene; the cause was unknown at the time of that report.
A Separate 2025 Parkway Crash
The available details about the Infiniti rollover place it early Saturday on the eastbound Westside Parkway but do not give a calendar date or cross street. In a separate crash reported June 2, 2025, Bakersfield police were dispatched around 3:17 p.m. to a single-vehicle crash on the westbound Westside Parkway onramp from Truxtun Avenue, according to KGET 17 News.
A Fatal Rollover the Year Before
BakersfieldNow reported that on July 24, 2024, a 23-year-old woman, Andrea Montero of Bakersfield, died after her vehicle traveled westbound on the Mohawk Street offramp at a high rate of speed, crossed Mohawk Street, went off an embankment and overturned several times, police said. Officers had been called to the area of Mohawk Street and the Westside Parkway about an overturned vehicle, according to BakersfieldNow.
No further details have been released about Saturday's rollover, and the California Highway Patrol has not indicated whether the investigation remains open.
