3 Killed as Fog Triggers Chain of Collisions
Thick fog was blamed for more than a dozen separate crashes involving up to 100 cars and trucks in the largely agricultural Central Valley on Thursday, killing at least three people.
The pileups came on a 15-mile stretch of California 99 between Fresno and Fowler. A fourth person died in a fog-related crash in Fowler when his truck was struck by a train.
A 10-mile section of the northbound freeway south of Fresno was shut.
Two people died when a big-rig truck overturned on top of a car, a California Highway Patrol dispatcher said.
Southbound lanes of the freeway remained open and traffic moved slowly through the dense tule fog that typically plagues the San Joaquin Valley in the fall and winter.
Between 75 and 100 cars and trucks were counted in the series of chain-reaction collisions.
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