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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The pistillate who was killed successful a clang against a tractor has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office connected Friday.
The coroner's bureau identified the pistillate arsenic 47-year-old Melissa Griffin of Tranquility. She was the rider connected a Harley-Davidson Softail motorcycle that collided with a tractor successful Fresno County.
Officers with the California Highway Patrol responded to the country of Colorado Avenue, conscionable northbound of Sumner Avenue, connected Thursday astatine 9:15 p.m. aft receiving reports of a fatal postulation collision.
Officers accidental Griffin was being carried connected a Harley-Davidson Softail motorcycle, driven by a man, traveling southbound connected Colorado Avenue. A John Deere tractor pulling a vessel trailer was traveling successful beforehand of them. The tractor was operating lawfully with an instrumentality of husbandry emblem and each required lights activated.
The antheral attempted to walk a John Deere tractor pulling a vessel trailer by utilizing the westbound enarthrosis of the roadway. However, the motorcycle ended up drifting further onto the shoulder, colliding with the rear of the tractor.
Both the operator and the rider were ejected from the motorcycle. Griffin was pronounced deceased astatine the country and the antheral operator was airlifted to a infirmary aft sustaining large injuries. His presumption is chartless astatine this time.
