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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 3 radical who were killed aft a fiery wrong-way operator clang connected I-5 person been identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office.
The coroner's bureau said 21-year-old Lloyd Miller, of Middlebury, Indiana, and 23-year-old Willis Bontrage, of Elroy, Wisconsin, were deed and killed aft colliding with a wrong-way operator connected Thursday.
Miller was the proprietor of the favored proscription work Puppy Wagon, and Bontrager was his dedicated co-driver. The sheriff's bureau says respective puppies died alongside the pair.
The wrong-way operator besides died arsenic a effect of the collision and was identified arsenic 74-year-old Diana Lawrence of Cassel successful Shasta County.
Officials said a preliminary investigation revealed that Lawrence was driving a Jeep southbound connected northbound I-5, northbound of Highway 145. At the aforesaid time, Miller and Bontrag were traveling successful a inferior van successful the close direction, up I-5.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the Jeep and the inferior van crashed head-on. A 3rd car travelling down the van was besides implicated successful the collision.
CHP says each 3 vehicles instantly caught occurrence and were engulfed successful flames.
Lawrence, Miller and Bontrag were incapable to exit and were each pronounced dormant astatine the scene. The operator and rider of the 3rd car were capable to flight with insignificant injuries.
The collision led to a fire, aboriginal labeled arsenic the Coal Fire, that dispersed to adjacent vegetation and burned astir 90 acres.
