Boy stayed by mom's side after she died in Fresno County crash, CHP says

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California Highway Patrol officers accidental a parent mislaid power of her Subaru Crosstrek portion leaving a friend's location and heading location to Tollhouse. She swerved disconnected Highway 168 astatine Qualls Prather Road successful Auberry.

"Vehicle traveled disconnected the embankment, rolled implicit aggregate times," said 1 archetypal responder.

Officers said the operator and her 7-year-old lad were some thrown from the car. The parent died, and her small lad stayed by her broadside for astir 12 hours earlier helium was found.

"We got a telephone of a kid walking connected the four-lane conception of the 168 and the parties who recovered the kid fundamentally walked down to wherever the clang had happened," said CHP officer, John Marsh.

The CHP had been looking for the brace since loved ones reported they were expected to instrumentality location aft midnight but inactive hadn't shown up by 8:45 Sunday morning. A "be connected the lookout" alert went out, and the small lad was spotted conscionable earlier noon.

Officer Marsh said they aboriginal discovered the Subaru had fallen astir 200 feet disconnected an embankment.

"It was fundamentally sitting successful a grove of trees, covered and not disposable from the highway," said Marsh.

Authorities judge some the parent and lad were not wearing seatbelts astatine the clip of the crash.

"He said helium was successful a car spot that helium did not autumn retired of," said a archetypal responder.

The seven-year-old was taken to Valley Children's Hospital, wherever helium was treated for respective wounds, including a breached arm.

Authorities said the kid was reunited with his begetter astatine the hospital.

First responders accidental the seven-year-old is simply a beardown small boy. We're told helium is successful precocious spirits fixed the circumstances.

This clang is inactive nether investigation.

The California Highway Patrol is inactive waiting for the toxicology study to spot if intoxicant oregon drugs were a factor.

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