Woman hit, killed by big rig on HWY 99

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 35-year-old pistillate died aft she was deed by a large rig Wednesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP says astir 4 a.m. they responded to a telephone astir a idiosyncratic walking successful the northbound lanes of Highway 99 conscionable northbound of McKinley Avenue.

Investigators accidental a large rig was traveling astatine 55 miles per hr erstwhile the operator tried to debar hitting the woman, but unluckily ended up hitting her. She died at the scene.

CHP says the pistillate was perchance nether the power but arsenic of now, they are waiting connected a toxicology report.