CHP

The man killed Thursday morning in a head-on crash in Fresno County was identified as 45-year-old Fernando Acosta Marquez, 45, of Fresno.

The California Highway Patrol responded to the crash just after 11 a.m. on Highway 180 and Napa Avenue, near Kerman.

CHP said Marquez was in a Nissan truck traveling west on Highway 180 on the wrong side of the road before crashing head-on with a semi-truck.

Marquez was pronounced dead at the scene.

CHP is investigating.

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