Nine Including 7 Kids Killed in Head-on Crash in Central California on New Year's Day

Seven kids and  grownup drivers have been killed in head-on collision in Central California on New Year's Day, government said.

The kids, who have been among 6 and 15 years antique, have been contributors of  associated households touring in a 2007 Ford that collided round eight p.m. Friday with a Dodge automobile on State Route 33 among Avenal and Coalinga, the Fresno County Coroner's workplace and the California Highway Patrol said.

Evidence from the scene indicated that the Dodge being pushed via way of means of a 28-year-antique guy become touring southbound at the motorway whilst it veered onto the dust shoulder for an unknown reason, the CHP said. The driving force then overcorrected and swerved into the southbound lane, wherein it struck the Ford pushed via way of means of a woman.

The Ford burst into flames at the dust shoulder, whilst the Dodge got here to a forestall straddling each lanes of the motorway, the CHP said. All 8 humans within the Ford have been killed, consisting of the seven kids.