1 person dead following fiery solo car crash in Merced County, deputies say

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- One idiosyncratic has died pursuing a fiery solo car clang successful Merced County.

The Merced County Sheriff's Office says the clang happened astatine 3:30 a.m. Saturday adjacent the Campus Parkway on-ramp from Highway 140.

When deputies arrived, they recovered an engulfed car that had crashed into a postulation airy pole.

After the occurrence was extinguished, deputies recovered a idiosyncratic dormant wrong the car.

Investigators aboriginal learned that a idiosyncratic connected to the car had precocious been reported missing.

The idiosyncratic recovered wrong the car has not yet been identified and the probe is ongoing.