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Driver loses control, slams into trailer in Tulare County and dies, police say

Farmersville police on Monday were investigating a fatal overnight traffic incident in which a driver was killed after he slammed a Nissan Murano into a flatbed trailer.

The crash took place just before 11 p.m. Sunday as the driver of the Nissan westbound on Visalia Road approaching South Virginia Street.

The two westbound lanes transition into one lane at Virginia Street, but the driver did not merge into the right lane and collided with a wooden barrier and then into the trailer, police said. The driver died at the scene.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 559-747-0321.

This story was originally published March 23, 2020 at 1:21 PM.

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A native of Colorado, Jim Guy studied political science, Latin American politics and Spanish literature at Fresno State University, and advanced Spanish grammar in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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