{"id":99160,"date":"2025-12-18T03:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99160\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T03:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T03:12:24","slug":"woman-and-2-year-old-girl-killed-in-fresno-county-crash-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99160\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman and 2-year-old girl killed in Fresno County crash, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Wednesday morning crash in Fresno County claimed the life of a 28 year-old woman and a two year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Highway Patrol says the preliminary investigation shows the female driver of this Honda Civic was likely speeding when she ran a stop sign on Jefferson and Walnut Avenues near Easton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman was traveling north and crashed into a Chevy Tahoe going east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno CHP says the toddler in the Honda was partially ejected and was not in a car seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators also believe neither was wearing a seatbelt, &#8220;Such heart wrenching feelings that go through emotions for the first responders we can&#8217;t say it loud enough, wear your seatbelts, if you have children that need to be in car seats please do that.&#8221; expresses California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Salas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two teen boys, ages 16 and 17, in the Chevy were sent to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They are expected to survive with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neighbors saw the aftermath of the crash, including Aiden Wettlaufer, who was heartbroken by what he witnessed outside his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And so I ran outside, and the first thing I saw as I got to the blue car was a little toddler ejected from the car,&#8221; Aiden continues, &#8220;That was horrible, that was really sad, I have no words about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This crash is one of multiple deadly crashes in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Including a friend of Aiden&#8217;s several years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neighbors are urging drivers to be safe and asking their local leaders for changes to be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;To see all of the people out here that are dying. It&#8217;s just horrible. I mean, there&#8217;s got to be some type of change, like I said, with deflective stop signs, or reflective before you stop,&#8221; expresses Aiden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One county supervisors&#8217; officer mentioned their roads division has been made aware of the crash and concerns by neighbors. They say the next possible step could be a safety study on the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP shares if you&#8217;re in need of assistance getting a car seat for your child they encourage you to reach out to local law enforcement for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Highway Patrol is still investigating what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For South Valley news updates, follow Kassandra Gutierrez on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KassandraABC30\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassandraABC30\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kassgutierreztv\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wednesday morning crash in Fresno County claimed the life of a 28 year-old woman and a two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[54076,859,20035,112,54075,622,114,113,13214],"class_list":["post-99160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-aiden-wettlaufer","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-car-seat","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-chp","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-preliminary-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99160","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=99160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}