{"id":371491,"date":"2026-06-23T14:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:06:34","slug":"man-killed-after-being-ejected-in-fiery-head-on-crash-in-fresno-county-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371491\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after being ejected in fiery, head-on crash in Fresno County, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man died Monday morning in a head-on crash in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California Highway Patrol officers responded to the scene at 5:30 a.m. on Manning Avenue, east of Chateau Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP spokesperson Mike Salas said a Toyota Tundra was traveling west in the eastbound lane of Manning when it collided head-on with a Freightliner pulling an empty trailer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Salas said the Freightliner driver attempted to avoid the collision by swerving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the impact, the Freightliner left the road and came to rest in a nearby grape vineyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Toyota overturned, became fully engulfed in flames, and the driver was ejected, Salas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Toyota driver was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Freightliner driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to Community Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Salas said the driver of the Freightliner was not impaired and was cooperative with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was unknown whether alcohol or drugs were a factor for the Toyota driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died Monday morning in a head-on crash in Fresno County. California Highway Patrol officers responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,112,622,114,113,6800,150545,150544],"class_list":["post-371491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mike-salas","tag-toyota-driver","tag-toyota-tundra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371491","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=371491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}