Update: 19-year-old from Kingsburg ID’d as victim in fatal crash with semi on Manning

A 19-year-old man was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle crash involving a semi-truck on Manning Avenue west of Fresno.

The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. and involved a Chevrolet Silverado that was sideswiped by a Freightliner Cascadia semi-truck. The 19-year-old was driving west on Manning in the Chevy pickup truck near South Riverside Avenue when the Freightliner veered from the eastbound lane, according to California Highway Patrol.

The impact sent the pickup off the road, where it overturned several times and landed on its roof. The driver died at the scene. He was identified Tuesday by the Fresno County Coroner’s Office as Mattix Salmon of Kingsburg.

The driver of the Freightliner was uninjured, remained at the crash site and cooperated with the investigation, CHP said.

It does not appear that drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash and the CHP is only saying the driver “allowed the Freightliner to veer to the left, into the westbound lane.”

The death comes less than a week after a crash northwest of Easton in Fresno County that killed a 28-year-old mother and her 2-year-old daughter and follows reports that more people have died in car crashes in the city of Fresno than by homicides in 2025.

This story was originally published December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM.