{"id":256179,"date":"2026-04-07T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:21:07","slug":"man-turns-himself-in-after-double-fatal-crash-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256179\/","title":{"rendered":"Man turns himself in after double-fatal crash in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police say the driver responsible for the <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/mckinley-avenue-closed-near-hwy-41-after-crash-tow-truck-police-officers-driver-injuries-monday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">double fatal crash on Monday<\/a> turned himself in at the Fresno County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>22-year-old Timothy Seth Chavez turned himself in to a deputy at the jail for the crash at McKinley and Highway 41 that killed 41-year-old Martha Hernandez, and her 9-year-old son, Adrian. <\/p>\n<p>The deputy called the Fresno Police Department and officers responded to the jail, detained Chavez and transported him to the Fresno Police Department, where detectives interviewed him.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Chavez revealed he was the person responsible for the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police at the scene of the crash said the crash occurred when a vehicle ran a red light and hit the car driven by Hernandez and pushed it into the canal.<\/p>\n<p>She was pulled from the car and died later at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian&#8217;s body was pulled from the canal about 3 miles downstream.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Police said Chavez was medically cleared at CRMC before being booked on 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":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police say the driver responsible for the double fatal crash on Monday turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-256179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256179","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=256179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}