BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The Kern County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who died after being struck by a vehicle on South H Street as 19-year-old Joseph Adam Cruz Jr. of Bakersfield.
The Bakersfield Police Department said on January 11, 2026, at around 1:51 a.m., officers were called to the 4200 block of South H Street regarding a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian.
When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive man, later identified as Cruz Jr., in the roadway. Emergency medical personnel responded and pronounced the pedestrian deceased at the scene…