Driver runs stop sign near Lindsay, 2 killed, 1 flees, CHP says

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two men are dormant and a operator was hospitalized precocious Sunday day owed to a rollover collision adjacent a Lindsay cemetery, CHP Porterville announced.

CHP says they received a telephone of a collision astatine Foothill Avenue and Lindmore Street adjacent the Lindsay-Strathmore Cemetery astatine 4:05 p.m.

Officers determined a achromatic Silverado pickup motortruck was traveling astatine an chartless velocity southbound connected Foothill Ave approaching a halt sign. At the aforesaid time, a Kia was traveling westbound connected the thorough roadworthy of Lindmore Street.

For reasons yet to beryllium determined, CHP says the operator of the Silverado ran the halt motion and crashed into the Kia, causing some vehicles to overturn.

Investigators say, arsenic a result, some big antheral occupants of the Kia died astatine the scene. The rider successful the Silverado fled the country and the operator sustained large injuries. He was transported to a section hospital.

It is chartless if drugs oregon intoxicant were a origin successful the collision.

Detectives are actively moving to find the circumstances starring up to the collision, including wherefore the truck's rider fled the scene.