{"id":480143,"date":"2026-09-30T05:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480143\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:20:20","slug":"men-killed-in-dust-caused-crash-in-rural-fresno-county-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480143\/","title":{"rendered":"Men killed in dust-caused crash in rural Fresno County ID\u2019d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FRS_EPZ_CHP_FATAL_05.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"California Highway Patrol responded to a crash west of Easton in rural Fresno County Monday morning. Two men were killed.\" alt=\"California Highway Patrol responded to a crash west of Easton in rural Fresno County Monday morning. Two men were killed.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        California Highway Patrol responded to a crash west of Easton in rural Fresno County Monday morning. Two men were killed.<\/p>\n<p>                Fresno BEE ARCHIVES ERIC PAUL ZAMORA<\/p>\n<p>            ezamora@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n<p>Two men killed Monday morning in a rural Fresno County crash have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office identified the victims as Diego Garcia Tepec, 56, and Juan Ortega Juarez, 57.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were in the same vehicle, a Nissan Sentra, and Tepec \u2014 of Fresno \u2014 was driving.<\/p>\n<p>Tepec and Juarez died Monday morning after a Honda Civic rear-ended the Nissan. The vehicles were traveling west near Lincoln and Cornelia avenues, west of Easton.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said visibility was reduced near the site of the crash due to a dust cloud caused by almond harvesting operations, prompting hazardous driving conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Honda driver was hospitalized with minor-to-moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790745620_975_IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nick Fenley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and joined The Bee in 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Highway Patrol responded to a crash west of Easton in rural Fresno County Monday morning. Two men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-480143","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\/480143","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=480143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}