A Hilmar man was killed in a traffic collision in front of his home as he tried to pull into his driveway Monday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash occurred on Lander Avenue in Hilmar, north of American Avenue, at about 5:40 p.m.
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The CHP Sonora area office reported a fatal bicycle crash on State Route 120 just east of Knights Ferry on the morning of Friday, November 25, 2022. The car vs. bicycle accident occurred at approximately 10:40 a.m. on SR-120 in the vicinity of Tulloch Dam Road and involved a 2005 Subaru, officials said.
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A 67-year-old man from Modesto who was bicycling along Highway 120 a few miles east of Knights Ferry on Friday morning died after turning into the path of a car and being struck, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Sonora-area office.
The collision happened at about 10:40 a.m., according to the CHP’s online CHP Traffic Incident Information Page.
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MODESTO — A Modesto teacher said she couldn't spread her dad's ashes in Europe after the airline lost her luggage — so she decided it was time to call Kurtis.
Four years after her dad's death, Kim Resso finally made it to his native land in Kelso, Scotland. But there was a problem.
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Nearly six hours after Modesto police responded to a report of a man having a mental health crisis and threatening suicide at his east Modesto home, he was in custody, uninjured and receiving care.
The incident began about noon, Lt. Felton Payne said. A man alone in his home on the 2400 block of East Orangeburg Avenue said he had a propane tank in his garage that he planned to blow up, authorities said.
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Mother Nature made good on meteorologists’ predictions, dropping nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain in Modesto as of early afternoon Tuesday. Combined with what fell Monday, the area has received 0.69 inches, with more to come.
The wet roads, combined with speeding and other behavior unsafe given the conditions, contributed to several collisions on Election Day.
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A 46-year-old man was killed in a rollover crash Friday south of Modesto, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The man was driving a Mercury east on Service Road approaching Ustick Road about 8:13 a.m. when the vehicle veered off the road and onto the south dirt shoulder.
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TURLOCK, Calif. —A pedestrian died Tuesday afternoon after a vehicle hit them and drove off, the Turlock Police Department said.
The hit-and-run crash in the 2100 block of Fulkerth Road was reported at 3:31 p.m., police said.
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Newly released numbers show the fentanyl crisis is responsible for a sharp increase in drug overdose deaths in Stanislaus County.
County public health has counted 229 deaths involving illegal fentanyl since 2020, when drug addiction counselors noticed that fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills were harming or killing people in Modesto.
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Firefighters early Saturday night continued to battle a blaze involving four mobile homes and 40 vehicles along the Fresno/Merced county line.
Called the Russell Incident by Cal Fire, the fire is on the 12000 block of North Russell, about an hour west of Fresno and a few miles south of Dos Palos.
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