IDENTIFIED: Tractor driver killed in Fresno County crash, CHP says

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The antheral who died aft a pickup motortruck collided with the backmost of his farming tractor connected Monday nighttime has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office connected Tuesday.

The Coroner's Office identified the unfortunate arsenic 72-year-old Alionso Jimenez Perez of Selma.

According to the California Highway Patrol, astir 8:15 p.m. connected Monday, Perez was driving a workplace tractor eastbound connected Floral Avenue toward Temperance Avenue successful Fresno County. A Toyota Tacoma was approaching from down but failed to spot the tractor successful a capable magnitude of time.

CHP says the Toyota collided with the workplace tractor, ejecting Perez onto the ungraded shoulder, and inflicting large injuries. Perez was transported to the infirmary wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead.

Officers accidental the operator of the Toyota was uninjured but remained astatine the scene.

This is an ongoing investigation. According to CHP, neither drugs nor intoxicant look to person been a origin successful this case.