Family of Bakersfield resident struggles to afford burial after crash, hopes for improvements to Highway 126

Jan. 8—Suzanne Sellers went to answer the door of her Fillmore apartment, expecting to see her brother had come back from Santa Paula on his way home from Bakersfield. Instead she was greeted by California Highway Patrol officers holding clipboards who asked her to take a seat. "It still didn't dawn on me that it has anything to do with my brother at all. It never crossed my mind and they told …