A man was killed and two others, including a 3-year-old, suffered major injuries in a crash on a Fresno highway early Sunday.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol responded to the collision at 2:25 a.m. on southbound Highway 41, near Highway 180.<\/p>\n
CHP spokesperson Mike Salas said a 31-year-old Selma man was driving a Toyota Camry south on 41 when, for reasons still under investigation, the vehicle stopped in the No. 2 lane.<\/p>\n
A 33-year-old Fresno woman driving a Kia Optima south in the same lane crashed into the rear of the Toyota.<\/p>\n
The impact caused both vehicles to spin out of control before coming to rest in the far right and far left lanes of the highway.<\/p>\n
A 3-year-old child riding in the Kia was restrained with a seat belt but was not secured in a child safety seat, Salas said.<\/p>\n
The child suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital. A man in the Kia also sustained major injuries and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Kia had minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Toyota was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n
Alcohol impairment is suspected to have been a factor involving the Toyota driver, pending toxicology and coroner analyses, Salas said.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed and two others, including a 3-year-old, suffered major injuries in a crash on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,112,114,113,6800,23630],"class_list":["post-320726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mike-salas","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320726","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=320726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}