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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 49-year-old antheral driving a Chevrolet Equinox died successful a clang with a gasoline tanker truck, according to the California Highway Patrol.
CHP says that astir 11:21 p.m. connected Friday, officers responded to a clang successful the country of Highway 63 and Avenue 352.
Investigators accidental the Chevrolet Equinox was going southbound connected Highway 63, approaching the intersection with Avenue 352.
At the aforesaid time, a 35-year-old antheral driving a 2023 Kenworth pulling a vessel trailer loaded with gasoline was going southbound connected Highway 63 up of the Chevrolet Equinox.
The operator of the Kenworth semi-truck slowed down successful mentation for turning near onto Avenue 352. CHP says the operator of the Chevrolet Equinox, who officers accidental was not wearing a seatbelt, crashed into the backmost of the vessel trailer astatine a precocious complaint of speed, sidesplitting the driver.
The operator of the Kenworth semi was uninjured. No substance was released from the vessel trailer arsenic a effect of the crash.
