{"id":521204,"date":"2026-11-07T01:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/521204\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T01:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:46:20","slug":"coroner-identifies-78-year-old-man-struck-killed-by-vehicle-in-sw-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/521204\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies 78-year-old man struck, killed by vehicle in SW Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office identified a man who died after getting struck by a vehicle in southwest Bakersfield over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At around 6:32 p.m. Nov. 1, Ronny Carl Delouth was walking westbound within a marked crosswalk at the intersection of California Avenue and Business Center Drive, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:RELATED: 2 men dead after being struck by vehicles in Bakersfield;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/pedestrian-safety\/man-dead-after-being-struck-by-car-on-california-ave\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0RELATED: 2 men dead after being struck by vehicles in Bakersfield\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Delouth, 78, of Bakersfield was then struck by a Toyota Prius traveling south, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Delouth was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:46 p.m., the coroner&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials reportedly made contact with the driver of the Toyota at the scene. BPD said it is unknown whether impairment was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about the crash is encouraged to contact the police department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a 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;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office identified a man who died after getting struck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-521204","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\/521204","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=521204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}