{"id":256108,"date":"2026-04-07T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:32:22","slug":"driver-turns-himself-in-following-canal-crash-that-killed-mother-and-son-in-central-fresno-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256108\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver turns himself in following canal crash that killed mother and son in central Fresno: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A driver is now in custody in connection with the crash in central Fresno that killed a mother and son early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say 22-year-old Timothy Seth Chavez turned himself in at the Fresno County Jail at 9 pm Monday before being turned over to police and interviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened at about 2 am Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say Chavez was driving a Honda Pilot when he ran a red light and hit an SUV, sending it into the Dry Creek Canal off McKinley Avenue near Highway 41.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">41-year-old Martha Hernandez died at the hospital after being rescued from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hours later, crews learned her nine-year-old son, Adrian Hernandez, was also in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His body was eventually found in the canal about two miles downstream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chavez was medically cleared at Community Regional Medical Center before being booked for two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter, two counts of felony hit and run, driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is now in custody in connection with the crash in central Fresno that killed a mother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[113324,2392,113323,112,4071,114,113,113322,113321],"class_list":{"0":"post-256108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-adrian-hernandez","9":"tag-central-fresno","10":"tag-dry-creek-canal","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-county-jail","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-martha-hernandez","16":"tag-timothy-seth-chavez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256108","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=256108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}