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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral and juvenile rider were killed successful a clang implicit the play aft a suspected DUI operator collided with them, Merced CHP announced.
According to the California Highway Patrol, connected Saturday, March 22 astir 12:20 a.m. they responded to a clang connected Highway 165, southbound of Turner Avenue.
CHP says 20-year-old Melissa Rosales of Los Banos was driving a 2014 BMW SUV astatine a precocious complaint of velocity southbound connected Highway 165 arsenic a 41-year-old antheral from Ceres was traveling northbound connected the aforesaid road successful a 2016 Honda Accord.
Investigators accidental Rosales failed to negociate a curve successful the roadway and crossed implicit the treble yellowish lines successful the northbound lane of Highway 165. The SUV collided head-on with the oncoming Honda.
Officers accidental the operator of the Honda and his juvenile rider sustained fatal injuries and were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
CHP reports Rosales sustained large injuries and was airlifted to a section hospital. Rosales was yet determined to beryllium driving nether the power of intoxicant and was arrested connected suspicion of felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter.
