Modesto Man, 46, Killed In Chaotic Ceres Crash

CERES (CBS13) — A chaotic single-vehicle clang country successful Ceres near 1 antheral dormant connected Sunday.

Ceres constabulary say, conscionable earlier 1 p.m., officers responded to the northbound Highway 99 off-ramp astatine Whitmore Avenue for a reported crash. At the scene, officers recovered a grisly country wherever a driver’s limb was trapped successful the doorway of a wrecked pickup truck.

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Officers instantly started life-saving measures and tried to unfastened the door, but it wouldn’t budge.

The driver, 46-year-old Modesto nonmigratory Leodegario Mendez Gonzalez, was soon pronounced dormant astatine the country by medics.

Investigators present judge that Gonzalez was primitively successful the drive-thru of a KFC nearby. For immoderate reason, helium tried to measurement retired of the conveyance – but that’s erstwhile the pickup started rolling forward.

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Gonzalez jumped backmost into the pickup, but it past crashed into the country of the KFC. The pickup past accelerated retired of the drive-thru and crashed into a curb that separated the edifice parking batch from the off-ramp.

The pickup didn’t stop, however. It continued onto the off-ramp going the incorrect way, past started backing disconnected the ramp earlier coming to a speedy halt – past reversing, again, onto the off-ramp.

Police accidental the pickup didn’t halt until it crashed into the partition separating the connected and off-ramps.

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Investigators are inactive looking into what caused the crash. It’s unclear if drugs oregon intoxicant were factors, Ceres constabulary say.

CBS13 Staff