Clovis Unified employee killed in fiery Merced County crash

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Charred writer and a transverse people wherever a fiery clang took 2 lives on Highway 152 conscionable eastbound of Arroya Avenue connected Friday afternoon.

Los Banos CHP officers accidental a 64-year-old antheral successful a Ford F150 was driving eastbound successful the westbound lanes for 5 to six miles earlier crashing.

"It initially impacted different vehicle," Los Banos CHP nationalist accusation officer, Shannon Stiers explained.

"Side-swiped a conveyance adjacent container car road, and respective miles down the road, it went head-on with a 2016 Honda Pilot."

Investigators accidental the motortruck went up successful flames connected impact. Both drivers died astatine the scene.

It is chartless if intoxicant oregon drugs played a origin successful the crash.

CHP says Highway 152 is simply a highly traveled roadway that connects the Central Valley to the Bay Area and tin beryllium dangerous.

"We usually person accidents that hap successful that country due to the fact that there's a batch of transverse traffic," Stiers said.

"Both lanes of traffic, eastbound and westbound, person postulation that crosses done the halfway median."

The Merced County Coroner's Office has not identified the operator of the F150 but said 37-year-old Marcy Robison was the operator of the Honda.

She was a assets specializer astatine Bud Rank Elementary successful Clovis.

The main sent an email to the schoolhouse that reads successful part, quote:

"Our full squad astatine Bud Rank is stunned and heartbroken, and we are pulling unneurotic to enactment her family, our kids, and each different done our grief."

The connection says that teachers would stock an age-appropriate connection with students astir Robison nary longer being astatine schoolhouse and that psychologists would beryllium disposable for students and employees.

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