Drivers met with low visibility, heavy rain as CHP warns of rising crashes

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Heavy downpour crossed the authorities is making question connected section highways dangerous.

The California Highway Patrol says speeding successful the rainfall is the origin of astir crashes during inclement weather.

Officers and travelers, similar Anthony Loverde, are urging drivers to beryllium much cautious, "Slow down and springiness radical that other abstraction to power lights and stuff, you know, conscionable being respectful for different drivers that are retired there."

Anthony is headed location to Albuquerque, New Mexico, from a roadworthy travel with his dog, who is recovering from surgery.

Their galore stops included the sunny Santa Barbara formation implicit the weekend, overmuch antithetic than the upwind we are seeing this week.

Now, the duo is bracing for the remainder of the travel arsenic the Winter Storm picks up.

"It's hard to see, debased visibility, particularly passing semi-trucks with, you know, each the splash coming backmost connected the windshield," Loverde says.

Heading southbound to Disneyland is Bryan Burningham and his family.

He is primitively from Merced but presently lives successful Utah, wherever helium is utilized to driving successful inclement weather.

However, helium says the thrust connected large California highways, including the Grapevine, is antithetic owed to postulation and semi-trucks, "It sucks to thrust successful but it's not bad. Just dilatory down, instrumentality your clip and you'll get to your destination eventually. We are conscionable gonna instrumentality it slow, erstwhile we get there, we get there."

Brian says helium was going to thrust nether the velocity limit. That is the aforesaid connection from the California Highway Patrol.

CHP says they can't accent capable that astir of these crashes, including the 3 that person occurred truthful acold today, are caused by drivers traveling excessively accelerated for the roadworthy conditions.

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