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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Excessive velocity and intoxicant depletion look to beryllium factors successful a clang that killed 1 antheral and injured 4 others, the California Highway Patrol says.
Saturday astir 7:15 p.m., CHP officers were dispatched to an wounded postulation collision connected Trimmer Springs Road, northbound of Lakeview Avenue, supra Pine Flat Lake.
Investigators accidental a achromatic full-sized GMC pickup, driven by 40-year-old Luis Estanga of Fresno, was traveling southbound connected Trimmer Springs Road astatine a precocious complaint of velocity with 4 passengers inside.
Estanga, they say, failed to safely negociate the road's sweeping close curve, causing the conveyance to veer disconnected the roadway and down a steep embankment, estimated to beryllium astir 200 feet down. The pickup went connected to rotation aggregate times earlier coming to remainder against a tree.
Several section agencies responded to the scene. The CHP says firefighters utilized wenches and ropes to get to the victims, going backmost and distant up the embankment with the gurneys, arsenic good arsenic utilizing tools to chopped done the truck's exterior to extract the patients.
As a effect of the crash, authorities say, 46-year-old Cristian Jaime sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased astatine the scene. Three others successful the pickup suffered minor-to-moderate injuries and were transported for aesculapian treatment.
Investigators judge Estanga was driving nether the power of intoxicant and placed him nether arrest. They accidental helium suffered extended injuries and was airlifted to an country infirmary for treatment. Once medically cleared, helium volition beryllium booked into the Fresno County Jail.
Estanga faces charges of felony driving nether the power of intoxicant and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Officers proceed to analyse this deadly clang and inquire anyone with accusation connected what led up to it to delight interaction the Fresno-area CHP bureau astatine 559-705-2200.
