FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A man has died after a car crash involving a garbage truck in southeast Fresno Thursday morning.
Police have identified the man as 38-year-old Jamal Garrett
The Fresno Police Department says it happened around 9 am near Chestnut and Lane.
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Officers say Garrett was in a white Buick speeding west on Lane and collided with the front of the garbage truck. The car then spun out and ended up on the front lawn of a home.
Police believe Garrett died immediately.
Residents were inside the home when the crash happened, but no one was injured.
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The driver of the garbage truck suffered minor injuries but did not need to be hospitalized.