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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Kings County Coroner's Office confirmed connected Tuesday the individuality of 1 of the radical who passed aft being injured successful a clang extracurricular Hanford.
The sheriff's bureau said 82-year-old Wylie Elick of Lemoore passed pursuing a clang extracurricular of Hanford, astatine the intersection of Grangeville Boulevard and 15th Avenue.
California Highway Patrol officers said the clang took spot conscionable earlier 11 a.m. connected Saturday. The operator of a 2014 Honda Accord veered disconnected the road, past swerved backmost into the westbound lane.
The operator of a 2024 Tesla Model 3 reportedly tried to debar the crash, but was deed head-on by the Honda. As a result, 3 passengers successful the Tesla and the operator of the Honda were taken to the infirmary for treatment.
However, the sheriff's officials said Elick ended up succumbing to his injuries aft being hospitalized. He was the lone fatality successful this crash.
Dr. Elick was a children's dentist astatine Wiley M. Elick, D.D.S., and according to the Kids Dental Group Hanford's website, helium was known arsenic "the Kids Dentist." The Wiley M. Elick, D.D.S. bureau shared a social media post astir Dr. Elick (or the beloved dentist?) that reads successful part:
This peculiar antheral has been a pillar of spot passim his life. From driving astatine property 12 to & from municipality from his grandpa's workplace successful 5 points, to assemblage successful England, to getting his doctorate astatine Loma Linda, and yet settling successful Lemoore to rise his 3 children, staying adjacent to his roots wherever helium was a spouse successful pistachio farming. He was besides a skilled aviator who loved flying. He is the patriarch that holds his household together. And the glue that holds his bureau together. There astir surely has ne'er been a kinder much diligent dentist to instrumentality attraction of children for implicit 40 years.
Wiley M. Elick, D.D.S., Inc.The presumption of the different parties progressive successful this clang is chartless astatine this time.
