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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Honda operator died pursuing a fiery head-on clang with a dump motortruck successful Merced County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
CHP says that connected Friday astatine astir 7 a.m. officers rescinded to a clang connected Lander Avenue oregon Highway 165, northbound of Corral Road. When officers arrived they recovered that a Honda and a 2012 International dump motortruck crashed head-on blocking some lanes.
Investigators accidental the Honda was driving northbound astatine an chartless complaint of speed, passing vehicles utilizing the southbound lane, earlier colliding head-on with the dump truck. The operator of the dump motortruck was connected the southbound lane of Highway 165 going astir 45 mph.
After the crash, CHP said some vehicles stopped blocking the northbound and southbound lanes. The Honda was engulfed successful flames and the operator died astatine the scene. The sanction of the operator was not officially released.
The operator of the International was transported by Westside Ambulance to Emanuel Hospital. It is chartless if drugs oregon intoxicant were a origin successful this crash.
