FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN/KMJ) — A man who died Thursday morning after colliding head-on with a semi-truck near Kerman has been identified.
The Fresno County Coroners Office identified the driver as 45-year-old Fernando Acosta Marquez.
The CHP says he was driving his Nissan the wrong way on Highway 180 near Napa Avenue, and collided head-on with a semi traveling east.
The truck driver was not injured.
Witnesses told officers they saw the Nissan speeding before it crashed into the truck.
The CHP says Marquez worked in a federal prison.
It is unknown if drugs and alcohol were factors in the deadly crash.
The crash remains under investigation.
Listen to the report by KMJ’s Liz Kern.
