BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- Yet another cyclist has been hit and killed on one of Kern County's deadliest streets -- Union Avenue. But the driver who hit him was an on-duty Bakersfield Fire arson investigator. "Preliminary 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," said Rex Davenport, a sergeant with the Bakersfield Police Department.

The cyclist was hit around 10 a.m. in the corner of Union Avenue and 4th Street, right in front of the Great Castle Restaurant. He died at a local hospital.

The person driving was an on-duty arson investigator in an unmarked car.

This stretch of Union is 40 miles per hour. Since last September, the cit

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