Driver dies in I-5 crash near Coalinga

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A antheral died aft crashing a 2008 Honda Civic into a  2019 Freightliner Cascadia motortruck aboriginal Monday evening adjacent Coalinga, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP says connected July 7, astir 5 p.m., officers responded to a clang successful the country of southbound Interstate 5, northbound of Highway 198. 

Investigators accidental an unidentified antheral was driving a Honda Civic going northbound connected Interstate 5, northbound of Highway 198. A 24-year-old, from Manteca, was driving a Freightliner Cascadia motortruck tractor successful operation with a trailer connected southbound Interstate 5, northbound of Highway 198.

For chartless reasons, CHP says the operator of the Honda veered disconnected the roadway towards the halfway median, wherever it began to rotation counterclockwise into the way of the Freightliner.

The operator of the Honda died astatine the scene. The operator of the Freightliner was uninjured, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The circumstances starring up to the clang are nether investigation.