{"id":372566,"date":"2026-06-24T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372566\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:09:09","slug":"victim-killed-in-crash-with-semi-truck-idd-as-fresno-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372566\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim killed in crash with semi-truck ID\u2019d as Fresno man"},"content":{"rendered":"

A person killed in a fiery, head-on crash in Fresno County has been identified as a Fresno man.<\/p>\n

Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office spokesperson Tony Botti on Tuesday identified the victim as Alfonso Ventura, 39, of Fresno.<\/p>\n

Ventura died around 5:30 a.m. Monday after crashing into a semi-truck on Manning Avenue, east of Chateau Fresno Avenue.<\/p>\n

Ventura was driving a Toyota Tundra west on Manning, though he was in the eastbound lane, authorities say. The Freightliner truck was pulling an empty trailer eastbound on Manning.<\/p>\n

The semi-truck driver attempted to swerve to avoid the Toyota, though this was unsuccessful, authorities say.<\/p>\n

The Freightliner lost control and came to a rest in a grape vineyard, while the Toyota overturned and became engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

Ventura was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. The Freightliner driver was treated for minor injuries at a hospital.<\/p>\n

The surviving driver was cooperative, and authorities determined he wasn\u2019t under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Toxicology results for Ventura are pending.<\/p>\n

The crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

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Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person killed in a fiery, head-on crash in Fresno County has been identified as a Fresno man.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-372566","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\/372566","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=372566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}