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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Clovis antheral was recovered dormant by his coworkers pursuing a single-vehicle car clang successful the Fresno County foothills Sunday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.
Just aft 9 a.m., the CHP was alerted by members of the Army National Guard that they had located an overturned achromatic sedan with a azygous antheral occupant wrong astatine Tollhouse Road and Van Vleet.
They identified him arsenic a coworker and said helium was expected to study to enactment astatine 8 a.m., but erstwhile helium didn't amusement up, they went looking for him.
Investigators said the conveyance was located astir 4 miles distant from the man's associated occupation grooming tract astatine the Cal Fire presumption successful Tollhouse.
The CHP said the conveyance was traveling eastbound connected Tollhouse Road erstwhile it near the roadway, deed a tree, and overturned.
The conveyance landed upside down connected the southbound broadside of Tollhouse Road successful a adust creek bed.
In summation to crushed resources, officials say, the CHP chopper was connected a grooming formation 2 minutes from wherever the conveyance was discovered. Fire unit requested their assistance arsenic a paramedic was connected committee who, erstwhile connected the ground, was capable to marque their mode to the deceased driver.
As of Sunday morning, officers were unsure however agelong earlier the Lexus was located that the clang occurred.
A procession of instrumentality enforcement vehicles near the country with the man's assemblage and stayed successful enactment until it reached the Fresno County Coroner's Office. It was determination that a little tribute was paid to him with Cal Fire units displaying a ample American emblem betwixt 2 Fresno County Fire extended motortruck ladders.
If anyone has accusation connected this case, they are asked to delight telephone the Fresno-area CHP bureau astatine (559) 705-2200.
