{"id":41037,"date":"2025-11-06T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:21:10","slug":"bicyclist-struck-and-killed-by-bfd-arson-investigator-vehicle-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41037\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist struck and killed by BFD Arson Investigator vehicle identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bicyclist-dies-after-being-struck-by-bfd-arson-unit-vehicle-on-union-avenue-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a bicyclist who died after being struck by a Bakersfield Fire Department&#8217;s Arson Investigator vehicle<\/a> as 32-year-old Bruce Edward Hall Jr. of Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bicyclist-dies-after-being-struck-by-bfd-arson-unit-vehicle-on-union-avenue-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bicyclist dies after being struck by BFD Arson Unit vehicle on Union Avenue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, identified as Hall Jr., was taken to Kern Medical where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"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\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/06688d8d-0170-4ee5-8369-54c905f3cf3a-Image42.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A bicyclist died at the hospital after being struck by a Bakersfield Fire Department&#8217;s Arson Unit vehicle on Union Avenue Friday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle, an on-duty City of Bakersfield Fire Department arson investigator, remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified a bicyclist who died after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-41037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}