Victim — just feet from parking his truck — and suspect identified in fatal crash near Fresno
The man killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday evening in Fresno County was identified by the coroner’s office Friday as 59-year-old Jeffrey Nazaroff of Kerman.
The collision happened at 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of South Brawley and West Church avenues.
California Highway Patrol Sgt. Joseph Bianchi said Nazaroff was traveling south on Brawley, approaching the intersection at Church with no controlled stop sign, when a black Jeep Wrangler appeared to run the stop sign on Church and collided with the dump truck.
The collision caused the dump truck to veer into the front yard of a home and strike a tree and almost hitting the residence.
Nazaroff was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fresno County Sheriff’s spokesman Tony Botti in an update Friday saiad Nazaroff was “just a few hundred feet away from the yard where he parks his truck at the end of the day.”
The driver of the Jeep — identified Friday by the sheriff’s office as 22-year-old Zdeineb Juarez Calderon of Fresno — was booked into Fresno County Jail on suspicion of DUI causing injury or death, and gross vehicular manslaughter. Her bail is $112,000.
The CHP, the sheriff’s office said Friday, also arrested her on suspicion of DUI in February.
The house wasn’t struck and there were no other injuries.
This story was originally published April 8, 2022 at 12:35 PM.
