FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0A 3-year-old has died from their injuries after the Kia Optima they were riding in crashed into a blacked-out Toyota Camry on Highway 41 early Sunday morning, officers say.<\/p>\n
The Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed the 3-year-old\u2019s identity as Kendrixx Leavell of Hanford.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol received reports of a Toyota that stopped in the middle lane of southbound Highway 41, north of Highway 180.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Toyota has been identified as 31-year-old Carlos Sandoval Jr. of Selma<\/p>\n
As the disabled vehicle remained on the highway, a 33-year-old woman driving a Kia crashed into the back of Sandoval\u2019s car.<\/p>\n
Leavell was wearing a seatbelt but was not secured in a child safety seat.<\/p>\n
The 3-year-old suffered major, life-threatening injuries and was rushed to the hospital, where he died days later on May 20.<\/p>\n
A man who was a passenger in the Kia was also hospitalized with major injuries.<\/p>\n
Sandoval was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n
Officers say Sandoval may have been under the influence of alcohol and are waiting for the results of a toxicology report.<\/p>\n
The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0A 3-year-old has died from their injuries after the Kia Optima they were riding in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-334915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334915","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=334915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}