IDENTIFIED: 2 women killed after fiery wrong-way crash in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Fresno County Coroner’s Office has identified the 2 women who died successful a fiery clang successful Fresno earlier this week.

The 2 women were named connected Friday arsenic 19-year-old Willianna Salas and 20-year-old Ximena Salas, some from Fresno.

According to the California Highway Patrol, some died successful a fiery clang that took spot aboriginal Wednesday morning astatine Highway 168 and McKinley Avenue. CHP says they started receiving calls astir a wrong-way operator traveling connected Highway 168 from Herndon to McKinley avenues.

CHP units began responding to effort to halt the vehicle. Investigators accidental they aboriginal received a telephone from a idiosyncratic connected McKinley Avenue, who said the vehicle, a 2005 Volvo, crashed, and became engulfed successful flames.

“Unfortunately, our units were incapable to scope the conveyance earlier it crashed. And by the clip the units came connected scene, the conveyance was afloat engulfed, and determination was nary mode to extricate the parties from the vehicle,” said CHP Sergeant Elvis Reynoso.

The origin of the clang is nether investigation.