A person has died after a car plunged off an embankment in the Kern River Canyon. It happened at around 10:00 p.m. Saturday on Highway 178 near Kern River Canyon Road. The Highway Patrol reports the driver’s body was found 40 to 50 feet down the side of the highway. The car came to a rest further down the embankment at around 200 feet. There’s no more information about the crash.