{"id":405962,"date":"2026-07-21T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:40:16","slug":"mother-and-daughter-killed-after-car-crashes-into-back-of-big-rig-on-highway-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405962\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and daughter killed after car crashes into back of big rig on Highway 152"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno woman and her teenage daughter have been identified as the two people killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer Saturday morning in Madera County, the California Highway Patrol says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CHP said the 50-year-old woman was driving a black Honda on Highway 152 near Road 14 1\/2 south of Chowchilla shortly before 2 a.m. when she approached a big rig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said the 32-year-old big rig driver was experiencing engine difficulties and was traveling about 10 to 15 mph on the highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Honda crashed into the rear of the tractor-trailer, killing the driver and her 17-year-old daughter, who was riding in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to CHP, the big rig driver pulled onto the right shoulder before realizing the Honda was lodged underneath the trailer. He was not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said everyone involved was wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It is unknown if alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno woman and her teenage daughter have been identified as the two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[162749,3421,859,852,8296,112,114,113,73178,15637,15149,294,58859,12838],"class_list":["post-405962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-162749","tag-big-rig","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-chp","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-highway-152","tag-madera-county","tag-mother-and-daughter","tag-timely","tag-tractor-trailer","tag-traffic-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405962","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=405962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}