PEDESTRIAN CAUSES CHAIN CRASH ON FREEWAY

A woman who was hit by a pickup truck this morning in the northbound lanes of Hwy 99 in Bakersfield is hospitalized with major injuries. CHP Officer Robert Rodriguez says the woman had been walking on the right hand shoulder of the freeway north of Merle Haggard Drive when she suddenly darted into traffic around 6:15. “Right now it’s too early to tell if drugs and alcohol were a factor in it, we’ll have to wait until the toxicology test is returned.” The incident caused a chain reaction crash that hurt nine people in three other vehicles, all those injuries are minor.

Suzanne Grant