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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 2 men who died aft their dune buggy was deed by a Freightliner successful Fresno County aboriginal Wednesday greeting person been identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office.
According to the California Highway Patrol, officers responded to Belmont and Westlawn Avenues astir 1 a.m. wherever they recovered a Freightliner had collided with a dune buggy benignant off-road vehicle.
Investigators determined a antheral was driving a Freightliner, tractor-trailer operation eastbound connected Belmont Avenue arsenic 2 men were traveling successful their dune buggy southbound connected Westlawn Avenue, approaching the Belmont Avenue halt sign.
Detectives accidental arsenic the Freightliner traveled done the intersection, the operator of the dune buggy failed to halt astatine the halt motion and drove straight successful the way of the Freightliner. The Freightliner was incapable to instrumentality evasive enactment successful clip and struck the dune buggy.
The Coroner's Office identified the operator of the dune buggy arsenic 22-year-old Miguel Ramirez Jr. and the rider arsenic 27-year-old Christopher Fernandez, some of Fresno. Ramirez Jr. and Fernandez were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
The operator of the Freightliner instantly reported the crash, remained connected scene, and is not determined to person been nether the power of immoderate substance, CHP reports.
Officers adhd the dune buggy was not equipped with lighting oregon immoderate different information features, nor was the conveyance street-legal.
This is an ongoing probe and detectives are actively moving to find if the operator of the dune buggy was nether the influence.
