{"id":316745,"date":"2026-05-15T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:45:22","slug":"update-victim-killed-in-crash-on-academy-avenue-in-fresno-county-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316745\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Victim killed in crash on Academy Avenue in Fresno County identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Kingsburg man was killed Thursday in a two-vehicle crash in southern Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash occurred at 7:30 a.m. on Academy Avenue, north of Dinuba Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to California Highway Patrol spokesperson Mike Salas, a Toyota Corolla was traveling north on Academy when, for unknown reasons, the driver allowed the vehicle\u2019s right tires to travel onto the dirt shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver overcorrected to the left, causing the vehicle to travel across the road and into the path of a GMC Denali traveling south. The front of the GMC struck the right side of the Toyota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Salas said the driver of the Toyota was wearing a seatbelt but was unresponsive. First responders performed CPR before taking the victim to Adventist Health Selma, where the driver was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was identified Thursday afternoon by the Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office as Alex Lopez, 28, of Kingsburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The GMC driver sustained minor injuries. A juvenile passenger in the GMC was taken to the hospital, and their status was unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was was unknown whether alcohol or drugs were a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kingsburg man was killed Thursday in a two-vehicle crash in southern Fresno County. The crash occurred at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11122,859,112,38458,114,113,132394,6167],"class_list":["post-316745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-academy","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county-coroner","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-gmc-denali","tag-toyota-corolla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316745","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=316745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}