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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The antheral killed successful a head-on clang adjacent Reedley connected Sunday has been identified arsenic 28-year-old Victor Reyes of Reedley.
The California Highway Patrol says the collision happened conscionable aft 8:30 a.m. connected American Avenue, conscionable westbound of Navalencia Avenue.
Reyes was driving a 2016 Acura TLX westbound when, for reasons inactive unknown, CHP said helium veered into oncoming postulation and collided head-on with a Ram Thor camper van.
CHP officials accidental Reyes was killed connected impact. Multiple occupants successful the van were injured and transported to Community Regional Medical Center with mean to large injuries.
Gary Ferguson, a supervisor astatine JGI Wholesale successful Visalia, wherever Reyes worked arsenic a merchandiser, said Mondays are usually filled with enactment and tons of chatter; however, contiguous was precise different.
28-year-old Victor Reyes
“Today is precise somber,” Ferguson said. “I’ve talked to a mates of the employees… they are conscionable devastated, to beryllium rather frank.”
Reyes had worked astatine the institution for 4 years and was known arsenic 1 of the apical merchandisers connected staff.
“Victor was a precise bully employee… helium had risen to the apical arsenic acold arsenic 1 of our champion merchandisers,” Ferguson said.
According to CHP Sergeant Jarrod Banta, determination were nary signs of braking from Reyes’ conveyance earlier the crash. A witnesser reported seeing the Acura transverse into the other lane with nary denotation of slowing down.
“We don’t cognize wherefore the different enactment crossed over,” Banta said. “No braking, nary nothing. That’s inactive yet to beryllium determined.”
CHP says intoxicant oregon drugs are not believed to beryllium factors successful the crash, which remains nether investigation.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Ferguson said respective of Reyes’ coworkers visited the clang tract connected Sunday to bespeak and grieve.
“Now, it’s conscionable been 1 of the hardest things for everybody astir present to grasp,” Ferguson said. “We’re profoundly sorrowful. He was truly liked by everybody successful the company.”
Reyes, described arsenic quiescent but ever smiling, was known for his consistency, punctuality, and beardown enactment ethic.
“He ne'er got successful trouble. No violations. As a driver, helium was good respected,” Ferguson added.
The squad astatine JGI Wholesale says his beingness volition beryllium profoundly missed.
