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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Smoke billowed up from a semi-truck Sunday arsenic occurrence crews enactment retired the flames from a deadly Sunday greeting crash.
It happened astir 7:30 americium connected Clovis Avenue adjacent Highway 99 successful Fresno County.
RELATED: Man killed aft pickup crashes into semi successful dense fog adjacent Highway 99
The operator of a Chevy S-10 slammed into the freightliner arsenic it was making a U-turn wrong the intersection.
Both vehicles went up successful flames, and the 40-year-old wrong the pickup died from his injuries.
"Obviously, fog -- it's here," says Mike Salas with the California Highway Patrol. "It's causing havoc. It's causing calamity connected our roadways."
CHP officers accidental they've responded to dozens of crashes caused by debased visibility implicit the past 7 days.
RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Dashcam footage captures infinitesimal of deadly Highway 99 pileup successful Fresno
Exactly 1 week earlier Sunday's deadly crash, 17 vehicles piled up conscionable 5 miles distant connected Highway 99 adjacent North Avenue.
Dashcam video shows the terrifying moments arsenic 1 operator was blinded, earlier crashing into respective different cars.
"I mislaid my enactment erstwhile I was watching it," says Melissa Culver.
Culver and her hubby were among the survivors of the monolithic collision that near 1 antheral dead.
She suffered injuries to her ribs, eye, arm, thorax and legs.
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Now, she says she and her household are doing everything to debar driving successful these conditions again.
"I person convey you letters that I privation to nonstop disconnected to CRMC, American Ambulance, the occurrence department, arsenic good arsenic CHP, but they're sitting successful my location due to the fact that I haven't wanted to spell to the station bureau erstwhile it's foggy outside," she said.
She's not the lone one.
Even drivers who person made it to their destinations safely this week accidental they've been acrophobic portion connected the roads, too.
"It's beauteous scary retired present recently, particularly with the Tule fog coming backmost in," says Adrianna Hernandez.
Others accidental it's not conscionable the fog that worries them.
"Some radical conscionable thrust excessively fast," says Frank Ortiz.
Authorities accidental that's true. With each fog-related clang the CHP responded to this week, velocity was besides a factor.
Officers are pleading with the assemblage erstwhile again -- thrust safely, oregon not astatine all.
"Our champion advice: if you could postpone those trips until it clears, delight do," Salas said. "If not, delight dilatory down."
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