California Highway Patrol advises drivers to take precautions in fog, dust storms

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The California Highway Patrol says determination is an summation successful accidents this clip of twelvemonth due to the fact that radical get complacent aft a summertime without fog.

A partition of particulate rolled implicit Madera County Monday starring to a monolithic pile-up connected Highway 152.

"We slowed down to a stop, and past each the cars conscionable kept coming and deed us," said Delissa Fulce, an Oakhurst local.

"We got deed 3 times by the cars down us, and I deliberation they got deed down us. So it was astir apt a 20-car pileup."

"Our friend, which is present successful the hospital, is like, we're going to get deed again," said Julia Parra Pintado, Crash victim. "Like, beryllium prepared. And we get and we got deed up by the back."

California Highway Patrol said the monolithic clang apt would've been hard to debar with however rapidly the particulate moved in.

While we mightiness not spot particulate storms daily, we person entered fog play and galore drivers volition look the Tule Fog arsenic they caput retired astir mornings.

Dust and fog tin pb to akin conditions connected the roadway and California Highway Patrol says you should instrumentality akin precautions if you tally into either.

"Reduce your speed," said Mike Salas, California Highway Patrol. "If you cannot see, don't effort and hazard it. Pull implicit disconnected wherever it's safe, crook those exigency flashers on, stay successful your car, spot belted, and hopefully you tin hold until that contented subsides."

CHP spokesperson Mike Salas said you tin adjacent crook connected your exigency flashers portion you're driving to marque yourself much visible.

When it comes to your headlights take the debased beams implicit precocious beams.

"The precocious beams, each it does is it's a reflector effect, truthful it benignant of blinds the driver, particularly successful the evening hours," said Salas.

If your car has automatic headlights Salas said don't beryllium connected the car to prime the close setting, particularly during the time and cognize the forecast earlier you deed the road.

"Delay your travel astatine each possible, if not," said Salas.

"If you're stuck successful a concern wherever you consciousness that it's going to beryllium a information to you oregon idiosyncratic other connected the road, propulsion implicit disconnected of the roadworthy good capable wherever you won't go a hazard if idiosyncratic comes up from down you."

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