{"id":41239,"date":"2025-11-06T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:37:09","slug":"coroner-ids-bicyclist-struck-by-bakersfield-fire-dept-arson-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41239\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner ID\u2019s bicyclist struck by Bakersfield Fire Dept. Arson Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the bicyclist who was struck by an on-duty Bakersfield Fire Department Arson Investigator on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bicyclist was identified as Bruce Edward Hall Jr., 32, of Bakersfield, according to coroner officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash was reported around 10 a.m. on Oct. 31 in the area of 4th Street and Union Avenue. Hall was pronounced dead at Kern Medical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cPreliminary witness statements said that northbound traffic was flowing through a green light and the bicyclist was traveling westbound on 4th and failed to stop for the red light and rode into cross traffic,\u201d said Rex Davenport, a sergeant with the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bakersfield Police Department is investigating this case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office identified the bicyclist who was struck by an on-duty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[23787,151,153,152,324,12897,27980,27981,27982],"class_list":["post-41239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-arson-investigator","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-bicyclist","tag-bruce-edward-hall-jr","tag-kern-medical","tag-northbound-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41239","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=41239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}