Tuesday morning, a vehicle overturned and caught fire on southbound Interstate 5 just north of State Route 198 near Coalinga, leaving one person dead.
According to California Highway Patrol dispatch logs, the incident was first reported at 2:21 a.m. as a car fire in the center divider, with the reporting party advising that the vehicle appeared to have front- and rear-end damage and that two occupants were out of the vehicle and walking around. The reporting party turned the call over to Cal Fire, which arrived on scene. No ambulance requests or CPR efforts were noted in the logs, but a coroner arrived on scene at 4:57 a.m., and the incident was updated to a fatality at 6:01 a.m.
CHP units were assigned at 2:23 a.m. and arrived on scene between 2:37 a.m. and 2:45 a.m. Logs described the vehicle as fully engulfed in flames southbound just south of State Route 145.
The vehicle was a blue 2004 GMC Yukon with only the front license plate remaining and no longer attached. A tow truck was requested at 4:58 a.m. for the completely burned vehicle, which was impounded.
Units cleared the scene between 5:08 a.m. and 6:01 a.m.
The identity of the deceased and the cause of the crash were not immediately available.
The CHP recorded the crash at GPS coordinates: 36.257907 -120.246414
Sources:
– CHP CAD incident viewer: https://cad.chp.ca.gov/
