BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified a bicyclist who died after being struck by a Bakersfield Fire Department’s Arson Investigator vehicle as 32-year-old Bruce Edward Hall Jr. of Bakersfield.
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The Bakersfield Police Department said on October 31, at around 10 a.m., officers were called to the intersection of 4th Street and Union Avenue regarding a crash involving a vehicle and a bicyclist.
The bicyclist, identified as Hall Jr., was taken to Kern Medical where he was later pronounced dead.
A bicyclist died at the hospital after being struck by a Bakersfield Fire Department’s Arson Unit vehicle on Union Avenue Friday morning. PHOTO: KBAK/KBFX
The driver of the vehicle, an on-duty City of Bakersfield Fire Department arson investigator, remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.
The initial investigation found that the bicyclist failed to stop for a red light while traveling westbound on 4th Street into northbound cross traffic and was struck.