Man suspected of driving impaired in deadly Fresno County crash identified

DUNLAP, Calif. (KFSN) -- A antheral who was allegedly driving impaired erstwhile helium caused a clang that killed a pistillate Wednesday has been identified.

The California Highway Patrol says 41-year-old Zachary Kinberger was driving a Tesla erstwhile it crossed into oncoming postulation connected Hwy 180 and deed 34-year-old Misty Lynn's Kia Soul head-on, sidesplitting her.

Before authorities released Lynn's identity, they had initially reported that the unfortunate was a pistillate successful her 20s.

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Following the crash, Kinberger was arrested and taken to the hospital, wherever helium remains with superior but non-life-threatening injuries.

A 21-year-old rider and 2 young children were besides successful the car with him astatine time. Those 3 passengers are expected to beryllium okay.

The clang connected Wednesday was not the archetypal clip Kinberger was arrested for driving impaired.

Action News has antecedently reported connected his past of reckless driving, including erstwhile helium led Fresno Police connected a pursuit successful 2015.

Police said past that helium was nether the power of marijuana and medicine drugs.

Those who knew Lynn said her decease was senseless and wholly avoidable.

"If you instrumentality somebody's life, you're not conscionable taking theirs. You're taking everything astir them. The radical that emotion them. You instrumentality a portion of people. You instrumentality a chunk retired of everybody's bosom that they touched," said Lynn's boss, Gena Lori Marr, done tears.

The CHP says Lynn was connected her mode to enactment erstwhile the clang happened, and was lone a mile distant from the Bella Brooke Cafe.

Lynn's coworkers astatine the cafe saw postulation from the clang physique up each the mode backmost to wherever they were and were shocked and devastated to larn Lynn had been the victim.

"The happening I'm going to miss... Just her successful general. I mean, determination was thing astir her I didn't like," said Marr.

Marr says everyone who works astatine the Bella Brooke Cafe is similar family.

"She treated maine similar a mom. And I loved her similar a daughter."

Marr says Lynn was a person of kids and animals and was trying to go a ma herself.

She says Lynn and her fiancé started trying to person a babe aft she precocious earned her Servsafe certification and learning she would beryllium promoted to manager astatine the cafe.

"She truly had thrust to marque her beingness good. And she was looking guardant to it. She conscionable got that Kia car -- not marque new, but marque caller to her. She conscionable got it, like, six months agone oregon so. They were truthful excited, due to the fact that they were driving beaters, hardly making it here. So she saved capable wealth to spell get a car... and past that's the 1 that she died in," said Marr.

Bella Brooke Cafe successful Dunlap volition big Lynn's solemnisation of beingness Sunday from 5-7 p.m. to rise wealth for her family. You tin besides donate here.