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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two deadly crashes occurred conscionable days isolated from each different astatine the aforesaid intersection successful Fresno County.
The latest tragic nonaccomplishment was 16-year-old Sandro Lazo, a Clovis Unified pupil who was deed and killed connected his motorcycle by a car Thursday night.
Miranda Benton recalls the infinitesimal she saw the 16-year-old connected the ground, warring for his life.
"We were really conscionable leaving our location and, successful our truck, and we saw 2 radical benignant of moving towards the young boy. And we tin tell, obviously, helium wasn't getting up. So, my hubby pulled implicit benignant of blocks successful postulation and I ran implicit to him and dropped to my knees and started praying for him," recalled Benton.
Authorities accidental Lazo, riding his bike, approached a halt motion astatine the intersection of Fowler Avenue and Perrin Road. He turned onto Fowler from Perrin and was deed head-on by incoming traffic.
The operator stayed astatine the country and cooperated with CHP.
But the boy, who was wearing a helmet, tragically died aboriginal successful the hospital.
"I consciousness heartbroken for their grief and there's thing I could ever accidental to alteration oregon marque amended the nonaccomplishment of their baby," Benton said.
Benton says she sees radical speeding down Fowler each the time, creating information for the community.
"There's nary motorcycle lane, there's nary entree disconnected of the roads to adjacent effort to get retired of the way," Benton said.
Lazo was entering his inferior twelvemonth astatine Buchanan High School.
A heartbreaking infinitesimal for the school, their main released the pursuing statement:
Our hearts are dense arsenic we learned contiguous of the unexpected nonaccomplishment of 1 of our Buchanan High School incoming juniors. This is simply a devastating nonaccomplishment for our full schoolhouse and community, and our hearts spell retired to Sandro's family. Our unthinkable intelligence wellness squad volition beryllium disposable erstwhile students instrumentality to schoolhouse to travel alongside and enactment those who are struggling successful the aftermath of this tragedy.
Principal Omar HemaidanThe California Highway Patrol is handling the probe but did not respond to a petition for remark connected past crashes astatine this intersection, including an incidental connected July 31, wherever 25-year-old Kaiden Bailey was deed and killed by a car.
Benton says determination needs to beryllium a change.
"I would enactment successful a halt motion going down Fowler astatine Perrin. I deliberation that they enactment the halt motion successful the incorrect side," Benton said.
We reached retired to Fresno County for remark but were unavailable.
Both crashes are inactive nether investigation.
