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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE)- The antheral who died down the instrumentality of the conveyance that went into the Friant-Kern canal Friday nighttime has been identified.
Just earlier 8:30 p.m., the California Highway Patrol says its officers were dispatched to the country of State Route 180, eastbound of Zumwalt Avenue, for a study of a conveyance crash.
They accidental they arrived to find a Honda Accord that had veered disconnected the eastbound lanes of the road and landed successful the canal.
Crews astatine the country accidental it was afloat submerged successful the cold, and fast-moving water, with who the Fresno County Coroner's Office identifies arsenic 23-year-old Elias Mayeda, of Pacific Grove inside.
Several section archetypal responding agencies each worked unneurotic successful the acheronian and hard conditions to find Mayeda.
The CHP says the Fresno Fire Department Dive Team was capable to marque their mode to him conscionable earlier 10:00 p.m., and helium was determined to beryllium deceased.
Rescuers accidental nary 1 other was recovered successful the car, oregon downstream.
Mayeda's household told investigators that helium was connected the telephone astatine the clip of the crash, and earlier the telephone disconnected.
The CHP says this incidental is simply a reminder of the dangers of distracted driving, and the bureau discourages drivers from utilizing a telephone portion down the wheel.
The origin of the clang remains nether investigation, arsenic good arsenic whether oregon not drugs oregon intoxicant were factors.
