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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - An apprehension has been made successful the vehicular hit-and-run decease of a 27-year-old Fresno motorcyclist, the California Highway Patrol said.
Officers were called to Highway 168, adjacent Shields Avenue, conscionable earlier midnight Thursday for a study of a conveyance vs a motorcycle.
The CHP said 27-year-old Thawon Pho was riding his Kawasaki motorcycle successful the mediate lane of Highway 168 erstwhile 33-year-old Julian Quinonez from Fresno, driving a Hyundai Elantra astatine a precocious complaint of speed, collided with Pho from behind. The unit of the collision ejected Pho from his motorcycle and sent him onto the car's windshield.
The Hyundai continued westbound portion pushing the bare motorcycle, and it yet came to remainder successful the accelerated lane erstwhile it separated from the car.
Officers said Quinonez kept driving until yet stopping connected the close enarthrosis of Highway 168 astatine McKinley Avenue. It was there, they claimed, helium fled the country and abandoned the Hyundai.
Due to highly acheronian conditions and constricted thoroughfare lighting, Pho was struck by passing vehicles and died astatine the scene.
The CHP said Quinonez was taken into custody and booked into the Fresno County Jail Friday afternoon, acknowledgment successful portion to accusation provided by assemblage members. He is being held connected suspicion of felony gross vehicular manslaughter, felony hit-and-run, and usurpation of parole conditions.
The bureau said successful a property merchandise that this incidental serves arsenic a reminder of the devastating consequences of unsafe driving and the lifelong interaction connected victims, families, and friends. It urges motorists to ne'er fly the country of a crash, ever stop, telephone for help, and stay astatine the scene.
