{"id":258851,"date":"2026-04-09T05:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:56:19","slug":"vehicular-manslaughter-and-other-charges-for-mondays-double-fatal-canal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258851\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicular manslaughter and other charges for Monday’s double fatal canal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Timothy Seth Chavez was in Fresno Superior Court on Wednesday to face charges in the fatal crash that killed a mother and son<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Police say the crash on McKinley at Highway 41 was caused when Chavez ran a red light and T-boned the car driven by 41-year-old Martha Hernandez.<\/p>\n

The force of the crash pushed her car into a nearby canal.<\/p>\n

Her body was pulled from the canal a short while later, while her 9-year-old son, Adrian, was not located for several hours, about 3 miles downstream.<\/p>\n

Police said Chavez left his disabled vehicle on foot. He later turned himself in at the Fresno County Jail<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that Chavez committed vehicular manslaughter of the mother and son, with a deadly weapon, a vehicle, as well as leaving the scene of a deadly accident.<\/p>\n

A felony, was committed by Timothy Seth Chavez, who did unlawfully, and knowingly, being a driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in death to John Doe , fail, refuse, and neglect to give to the injured person and to a traffic and police officer at the scene of the accident his\/her name and address, the registration number of his\/her vehicle, and the name of the owner of said vehicle; to exhibit his\/her operator’s license; to render reasonable assistance to the injured person; and perform the duties specified in Vehicle Code sections 20003 and 20004.<\/p>\n

You can read the full complaint below.<\/p>\n

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A GoFundMe has been set up for the funerals of Martha and Adrian, and for her surviving son. Click here<\/a> if you would like to contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Timothy Seth Chavez was in Fresno Superior Court on Wednesday to face charges in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-258851","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\/258851","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=258851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}