{"id":256362,"date":"2026-04-07T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:26:14","slug":"driver-turns-himself-in-following-canal-crash-that-killed-mother-and-son-in-central-fresno-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256362\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver turns himself in following canal crash that killed mother and son in central Fresno, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; 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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened at about 2 am Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">41-year-old Martha Hernandez died at the hospital after being rescued from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hours later, crews learned her nine-year-old son, Adrian Hernandez, was also in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His body was eventually found in the canal about two miles downstream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A driver is now in custody in connection with the crash in central Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[113370,113368,2392,112,114,113,113369,78229,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-256362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-113370","9":"tag-canal-crash","10":"tag-central-fresno","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-mother-and-son-killed","15":"tag-suspect-in-custody","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256362","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=256362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}