Two separate motorcycle crashes happened within minutes of each other along Olive Avenue on Monday evening in Central Fresno, leaving both riders hospitalized, police say.
The highway patrol says a Ford Explorer was heading north on Road 400, approaching River Road, when the driver, a 61-year-old Madera woman, crossed into oncoming traffic, hitting a Ford F-350.
A reckless driver was seriously injured after slamming into a stopped big rig on the shoulder of Highway 99 near Fresno Street.
The CHP says 106 people were killed in crashes in Madera County between 2020 and 2023; they hope enforcement funded by a new grant will make roads safer.
Walter Huang was killed when his Tesla struck a concrete highway median in Silicon Valley on March 23, 2018. The National Transportation Safety Board, in its investigation, found that Autopilot was engaged for nearly 19 minutes before the fatal crash, when the car, traveling at 71 mph, veered off the highway.
State police in Pennsylvania say five people were struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 81 after they had left their vehicles following another crash.