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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 79-year-old Fresno antheral has died aft helium crashed his Camry into a factual partition aboriginal Saturday greeting successful agrarian Madera County, the California Highway Patrol said.
The Merced-area CHP Communications Center said it was notified of a single-vehicle clang involving a 2011 Toyota Camry conscionable earlier 6 a.m. connected Avenue 14, westbound of Road 9.
Officers arrived to find that the vehicle's operator failed to admit the extremity of the roadway and said helium continued onto a ungraded entree road, which led to a metallic gross and factual barriers.
The CHP said that the antheral received fatal injuries arsenic a effect of the crash, and helium was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. It notes that though the operator was seat-belted in, the loop was improperly positioned with the enarthrosis strap being worn down his backmost astatine the clip of the crash.
Investigators said the origin is inactive nether investigation, and the usage of drugs oregon intoxicant has not been confirmed.
The decedent's sanction has yet to beryllium released pending notification of the man's adjacent of kin.
Anyone with accusation connected what led up to the clang is asked to interaction the Merced Communications Center astatine (209) 356-2900.
