{"id":227342,"date":"2026-03-19T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227342\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:42:08","slug":"one-dead-another-injured-in-head-on-crash-in-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227342\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, another injured in head-on crash in Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol says a head-on crash at a rural Fresno County intersection on Wednesday left one person dead and another seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>CHP Fresno Area units were dispatched about 3:30 p.m. to the intersection of Central and DeWolf Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/chp-motorcycle-rider-killed-in-head-on-crash-with-vehicle-passing-slower-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CHP: Motorcycle rider killed in head-on crash with vehicle passing slower traffic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found a Ford F-250 was traveling eastbound on Central when the driver turned left at DeWolf, in the path of an oncoming Toyota Camry. <\/p>\n<p>The Toyota driver could not avoid the collision and crashed into the truck.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and passenger in the Ford were not injured, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota driver suffered major injuries, but CHP said he tried to run away from the crash.<\/p>\n<p>They say he collapsed a short distance away in a nearby orchard because of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The right front passenger in the Toyota, identified as 72-year-old Jesse Hernandez of Fowler, was not wearing a seat belt and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol says a head-on crash at a rural Fresno County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-227342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227342","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=227342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}