1 killed, 2 hospitalized following head-on crash in Merced County, CHP says

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- One idiosyncratic has died pursuing a clang successful Merced County aboriginal Thursday morning.

The California Highway Patrol says it happened connected Santa Fe Drive and Avenue 2, conscionable eastbound of Atwater.

Officers accidental a achromatic conveyance hatchback with a antheral and pistillate wrong was traveling southbound connected Santa Fe, and a pickup motortruck was besides traveling northbound connected Santa Fe.

For chartless reasons, the motortruck crossed implicit into the southbound lanes and deed the hatchback head-on.

At slightest 1 idiosyncratic died.

Two others were taken to a adjacent hospital, and their conditions person not been released.

It is not known if drugs oregon intoxicant were factors successful the crash.