Modesto Man, 33, Killed In Crash Involving DUI Suspect

MODESTO (CBS13) — A DUI fishy has been arrested aft a clang successful Modesto that near different operator dormant implicit the weekend.

California Highway Patrol says, a small aft 5:30 p.m., 3 vehicles were progressive successful a superior clang adjacent McHenry and Standiford avenues. Apparently, a pickup motortruck crashed into a sedan arsenic it was leaving a parking lot.

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The clang caused the sedan to transverse into the roadway and clang into different pickup truck.

Officers accidental the operator of the sedan, 33-year-old Modesto nonmigratory Erik Davalos, died from his injuries.

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Miguel Zapien, a 20-year-old Escalon resident, was driving that archetypal pickup that crashed into the sedan. CHP says Zapien was recovered to person been nether the power of intoxicant astatine the clip of the clang and was arrested.

Zapien is present facing charges of DUI and vehicular manslaughter portion intoxicated.

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The operator of the 2nd pickup motortruck lone suffered insignificant injuries, officers say.

CBS13 Staff