{"id":322787,"date":"2026-05-19T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322787\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:32:26","slug":"selma-man-killed-in-hwy-41-crash-in-fresno-identified-and-update-on-child-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322787\/","title":{"rendered":"Selma man killed in Hwy 41 crash in Fresno identified \u2014 and update on child hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office on Monday identified the Selma man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315789805.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:killed in a collision on Highway;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;killed in a collision on Highway&quot;}\" class=\"link \">killed in a collision on Highway<\/a> in Fresno on Sunday as 31-year-old Carlos Sandoval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Highway Patrol responded to the crash at 2:25 a.m. on southbound Highway 41, near Highway 180. Reports indicated that Sandoval was driving a Toyota Camry south on 41 when, for reasons still under investigation, the vehicle stopped in the No. 2 lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP then said a 33-year-old Fresno woman driving a Kia Optima south in the same lane crashed into the rear of the Toyota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP said a 3-year-old child riding in the Kia was restrained with a seat belt but was not secured in a child safety seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP said the child suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an update Monday, CHP spokesperson Mike Salas said the child was in critical condition and that a passenger in the Kia had major injuries, while the driver had minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sandoval died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP said alcohol impairment is suspected to have been a factor for the Toyota driver, pending toxicology results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office on Monday identified the Selma man killed in a collision on Highway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,134469,112,622,114,113,23630],"class_list":["post-322787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-carlos-sandoval","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322787","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=322787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}