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SANGER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Sanger pupil has died and different is successful the hospital in captious but unchangeable condition.
According to Sanger Police, the victims were a 17-year-old antheral and female. The brace were crossing the intersection of North Bethel and Almond Avenues astir 7 p.m. connected Tuesday erstwhile they were struck by a northbound vehicle. The operator remained connected the country and cooperated with the police.
Both victims were transported to the Community Regional Medical Center, wherever the antheral pupil died from his injuries.
In a statement, Sanger Unified School District says the 2nd pupil is "...responsive and communicating with her family." Additionally, the schoolhouse territory has activated a situation effect squad to enactment students, staff, and family; on with grief counselors disposable astatine Sanger High School and Sanger West High School.
This nonaccomplishment is hitting the Sanger assemblage hard, particularly for the schoolhouse district, arsenic they attack the one-year day of 10-year-old Jameson Doyle's death. He was deed and killed portion crossing Cherry and East Bethel Avenue aft shot practice, conscionable a thoroughfare implicit from wherever Tuesday night's clang occurred.
Residents tell YourCentralValley that the intersection is engaged with radical ignoring the velocity limit, and the streets are dimly lit.
"People question down determination similar a highway, you know, they bash 60, 65, 70, spell crossed that intersection, they conscionable spell excessively fast," said Benjamin Cliff, Sanger resident.
The posted velocity bounds is 25 miles per hour.
"Kids get retired of school, they travel up determination and they travel crossed the street, and that needs to person a halt awesome connected it," Cliff added.
Cliff has lived disconnected of Bethel Avenue his full life, helium suggests that the intersection of Bethel and Almond should person a four-way stop. Currently, determination are lone halt signs for Almond Avenue.
"They don't adjacent wage attention," Cliff said.
Sanger PD continues to analyse the collision. The names of the students person not been released astatine this time.
