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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A antheral driving a GoKart has died aft his off-road conveyance was struck by a passing pickup truck, which past fled the scene, the California Highway Patrol says.
Officers accidental astir 6:30 a.m. Saturday their dispatch halfway received a telephone regarding the collision connected Mountain View Avenue, westbound of Peach Avenue.
Emergency unit responded to find an big male, the sole occupant of the recreational vehicle, suffering from captious injuries arsenic a effect of the hit-and-run.
Deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office were the archetypal to get astatine the country and effort life-saving efforts. Despite those efforts, the antheral died astatine the scene.
Investigators accidental preliminary findings bespeak an unidentified driver, traveling westbound successful a Toyota Tacoma, struck the GoKart from behind. They judge the operator stopped momentarily but past near the country without offering to assistance the injured man.
The CHP says the GoKart was not street-legal, had nary lights oregon reflectors, and was debased to the ground.
The unidentified pickup operator has not yet been located. Officers accidental archetypal grounds near astatine the country suggests the fishy conveyance whitethorn beryllium a white, 2012-2015, Toyota Tacoma with front-end damage.
The probe is ongoing. Anyone with accusation regarding the suspect, and/or their vehicle, is asked to telephone the Fresno-area CHP bureau astatine (559) 262-0400.
Officers accidental it is chartless if intoxicant oregon drugs were a origin successful this crash.
