{"id":446293,"date":"2026-08-28T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446293\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:12:48","slug":"driver-flown-to-hospital-after-rear-ending-manure-truck-towing-tractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446293\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver flown to hospital after rear-ending manure truck towing tractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Roads were completely blocked after a crash on Friday morning in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is on Highway 180 near Oliver Avenue, just west of Sanger.<\/p>\n<p>CHP says they first got a call around 6:45 a.m. for reports of the major crash.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations show that a pick up truck towing a tractor and manure spreader on a trailer was travelling westbound on Highway 180 near Oliver Avenue at around 40-45 mph.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a box truck was travelling behind the the truck and tractor at about 65-70 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The box truck ended up rear ending into the tractor, pinning the driver of the box truck inside.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/copus-road-remains-closed-both-ways-as-chp-investigates-fatal-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copus Road south of Bakersfield remains closed both ways as CHP investigates fatal crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHP, firefighters and EMS all responded, and the 30-year-old male driver was extricated.<\/p>\n<p>He was then flown to the hospital with severe injuries to a limb.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>All the occupants were wearing their seatbelts at the time and alcohol drugs are not believed to be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is still under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Officers say the impact caused the box truck and tractor to be stuck together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Roads were completely blocked after a crash on Friday morning in Fresno County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-446293","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\/446293","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=446293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}