2 dead after crash with Freightliner in Merced County, CHP says

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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two radical mislaid their lives successful a clang and a one-year-old miss was transported to Valley Children’s Hospital precocious Monday nighttime successful Merced County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP says officers observed a clang astir 11:52 p.m. connected westbound Highway 152 astatine Turner Island Road.

Investigators accidental a 2015 Kia was going southbound connected Turner Island Road, northbound of Highway 152. A 2015 Freightliner motortruck and tractor-trailer operation was traveling westbound connected Highway 152, eastbound of Turner Island Road.

CHP says, for an chartless reason, the operator of the Kia failed to halt astatine the posted halt motion connected southbound Turner Island Road astatine Highway 152 and drove into the way of the Freightliner. 

CHP said the beforehand of the Freightliner crashed with the near broadside of the Kia.

The operator and the close beforehand rider of the Kia died astatine the scene. An further occupant of the Kia, a one-year-old girl, was transported to Valley Children’s Hospital arsenic a precaution. 

The operator of the Freightliner was uninjured.

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