Wrong-way driver kills 3 people, sparks wildfire along I-5 near Coalinga

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A multi-vehicle clang successful occidental Fresno County that besides sparked a writer occurrence has near 3 radical dead.

The California Highway Patrol says it happened conscionable earlier 8 p.m. Thursday connected Interstate-5 and Highway 145, adjacent Coalinga.

Investigators accidental a pistillate successful a jeep was driving the incorrect mode connected southbound I-5 successful the fig 1 lane.

At that time, 2 radical successful a inferior van were headed northbound connected I-5 with a Toyota close down them.

The jeep and the inferior van crashed head-on, with the Toyota past hitting the inferior van.

All 3 cars caught fire, with the 2 radical wrong the Toyota escaping from the car.

The pistillate successful the jeep, on with the 2 radical successful the inferior van, were incapable to get retired and died astatine the scene.

Authorities person not determined if intoxicant oregon drugs were a origin successful the crash.

Officials besides accidental this clang sparked the Coal fire.

The blaze scorched 90 acres earlier being afloat contained precocious past night.