BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man is in custody after a hit-and-run that killed a woman in east Bakersfield.
According to the Bakersfield Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 2500 block of South Union Avenue Sunday just after 7:30 p.m.
BPD said the woman was crossing outside of a marked crosswalk when she was struck by a vehicle driving northbound. The driver in the crash fled the scene with the vehicle before officers arrived to the scene.
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The Bakersfield Fire Department responded and pronounced the woman dead at the scene…