A Bakersfield man is hospitalized with major injuries after his SUV hit a semi head-on near McFarland.
The CHP says 61-year-old Stanley Hopkins drifted into the path of the freightliner on Pond and Melcher roads Thursday morning, sending the big rig through a fence and into a ditch. Alcohol and drugs are not suspected in the crash.
Kelli Forsch and Suzanne Grant