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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - It was a unsafe and deadly Tuesday greeting for drivers successful the Central Valley with wide dense fog.
That fog caused chaos connected the road.
Before 11 a.m. Tuesday, the California Highway Patrol responded to 12 abstracted crashes successful Fresno County, including a deadly clang disconnected of Parlier and McCall adjacent Fowler that took the beingness of a antheral aft officers accidental helium pulled his motortruck straight successful beforehand of a large rig already passing done the intersection.
"We bash judge fog mightiness person been a contributing origin successful this ..that large rig struck the beforehand extremity of the pickup motortruck with the close beforehand of the semi dragging that conveyance astir 100 feet done the intersection," said Public Information Officer Mike Salas.
The antheral was ejected from the motortruck during the clang and died astatine the scene.
CHP is asking everyone to instrumentality other precautions erstwhile driving successful the fog.
“Reduce those speeds. Allow yourself immoderate region betwixt that car successful beforehand of you. And of each things, crook connected those headlights. You privation to marque yourself visible," said Salas.
Tuesday morning's dense fog advisory was the seventh the National Weather Service has issued successful the past week.
"So we had a batch of moisture and precipitation from that atmospheric stream that occurred and a batch of that is near implicit successful the soil, truthful it's allowing beauteous overmuch the crushed to beryllium moist," said Mikal Montgomery with the National Weather Service successful Hanford. "Then we're having clearing skies allowing besides for temperatures to fundamentally alteration astatine nighttime and fundamentally assistance to signifier fog overnight into the greeting hours".
Other tips for driving successful the fog see rolling down windows to perceive different cars oregon pulling implicit and waiting it out.
