2 killed in fiery wrong-way crash on Hwy 168, CHP says

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two radical are dormant successful a fiery wrong-way operator clang aboriginal Wednesday greeting successful southeast Fresno, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The clang happened astir 2:30 a.m. astatine Highway 168 and McKinley Avenue.

CHP says they started receiving calls astir a wrong-way operator traveling connected Highway 168 from Herndon to McKinley. CHP units began responding to effort to halt the vehicle.

Investigators accidental they received a telephone from a idiosyncratic connected McKinley Avenue, who said the vehicle, a 2005 Volvo, crashed, and became engulfed successful flames.

“Unfortunately, our units were incapable to scope the conveyance earlier it crashed. And by the clip the units came connected scene, the conveyance was afloat engulfed, and determination was nary mode to extricate the parties from the vehicle,” said CHP Sergeant Elvis Reynoso.

The origin of the clang is nether investigation.