Reckless driver causes crash on highway 46, Bakersfield CA
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A vehicle was driving recklessly at 90 to 100 miles per hour on highway 46, passing on the right shoulder. This reckless driving led to a collision involving trucks that rolled over into the center divider on northbound I-5 near highway 46.
Audio|Heard on: Kern County Sheriff/Bakersfield PD
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04:12
Transcript:
00:00
Please regard back with the female subject on 1021 regarding a possible reckless driver.
00:11
Copy, you are northbound on the center.
00:19
At 506, excuse me, I think he's northbound at Main Drane, I wasn't able to copy your 1020.
00:27
Correctly.
00:30
Stafford.
00:32
Lieutenant Czell that entire.
00:36
Yeah, just okay, we get off on the 4th grade.
00:40
Hi, Gavit, you're northbound from Hageman.
00:42
Continuing, for information, he said the vehicle was traveling at 90 to 100 mph passing on the right shoulder.
00:49
We'll advise Kalinka.
00:52
The 6906-0-0-197-98-feat Shea-way.
01:01
Control on Ridge 11, show me, codepaces itself to follow, code for.
01:05
Ridge 11, confirm.
01:15
Control Warner is not attached to the Ridge 11's call.
01:18
For.
01:20
I have a six ARP advised that he took the gas pump out of the vehicle, preventing the driver from obtaining fuel,
01:30
so the vehicle may possibly run out of gas.
01:32
They're now approaching 46.
01:48
Control, take it they want to the site for a follow-up and check on.
01:53
Tangan everyone, code text.
02:00
6-04. 6-4.
02:02
6-4. 6-4.
02:10
Order 9, 1010.
02:20
4.9. Hagen, Oaks and Ming.
02:23
9, Tom, Robert, Paul, 332, Silver Alpha, Romeo.
02:29
Control, 102, the traffic stop.
02:34
Rose David 2.
02:36
California 9 Victor Zebra Edwards 572 on a BMW of the 60th in the boulevard.
02:46
Acknowledged.
02:48
No stop. Current deadline to 22 alpha Romero.
02:51
Arvin.
02:54
Tech 2.1087 on 233595.
03:03
Rose David's here because no stop's current in 2026 DMW out of Fort Lauderdale.
03:15
Go to copy.
03:25
Control at the ball one, code six on one, behind the FulmaX on aisle.
03:32
In Mojave, on a supplemental and I'm code for.
03:36
Ten-for.
03:40
So I think of the company, no, so I'll be ten-six from a mock court.
03:44
Ten-for.
03:49
Two-S-fifty central units to be en route to wheel in court, all of the units at week ten-eight.
03:57
Two-sifty, ten-four.
04:03
506, this is now traffic collision.
04:05
Northbound I-5, 2 miles north of highway 46, the truck collided with a bobtail truck, which rolled over into the center divider.
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CA-46, California
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