A man was killed and multiple people were injured in a fog-related crash Sunday morning involving as many as 17 vehicles on Highway 99 in Fresno County.<\/p>\n
California Highway Patrol spokesperson Mike Salas said the collisions occurred at 9:15 a.m. on southbound Highway 99 between North and Cedar avenues. The crash involved numerous vehicles, including a semi-truck.<\/p>\n
Salas said the incident began when thick fog reduced visibility to just 10 to 15 feet, prompting two vehicles in the No. 1 and 2 lanes to slow down. As those vehicles reduced their speed, others behind them braked abruptly, leading to a chain-reaction crash as drivers attempted to take evasive action.<\/p>\n
Two drivers who had exited their vehicles were struck by other vehicles. One of those individuals was pronounced dead at the scene, and another was found on a nearby grassy area with major injuries.<\/p>\n
Approximately 12 ambulances responded, and a FAX bus took multiple victims to the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you can anticipate, we\u2019re going to have this roadway shut down for most of the morning and into the afternoon,\u201d Salas said. \u201cIt could extend into the evening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Southbound traffic was diverted to North Avenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the most horrific crashes I can recall,\u201d Salas said.. \u201cAbout 25 years ago, in nearly the same location, there was a multi-vehicle crash very similar to this. Thankfully, many lives have been saved because of the use of seat belts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Salas advised drivers to slow down in inclement weather, especially during foggy conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed and multiple people were injured in a fog-related crash Sunday morning involving as many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,112,622,114,113,6800,25041],"class_list":["post-133255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mike-salas","tag-sunday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}