Coroner's office IDs Bakersfield man hit, killed by train

A Bakersfield resident has been identified as the man who died May 2 after being struck by a train near East Truxtun Avenue and Baker Street.

Sixty-three-year-old James Tilton Ruff succumbed to blunt force trauma at 8 a.m. after being taken to Kern Medical following the train accident, the Kern County coroner's office reported Sunday.