The westbound pickup entered the eastbound lane of Highway 132 and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer rig.
A San Jose man was killed in a wrong-way crash on a rural highway west of Modesto, the California Highway Patrol said.
Gilberto Llamas-Gutierrez, 28, was reportedly driving a Nissan pickup westbound on Highway 132 early on the morning of Thursday, April 13. Around 2:40 a.m., when the truck was west of the community of Twin Rivers, it entered the eastbound lane and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer rig.The rig’s driver, a 32-year-old Lodi man, suffered minor injuries, as did one of his passengers, a 33-year-old Lodi woman. A 3-year-old boy who was seatbelted in the rig’s sleeper berth was not injured.
Four days earlier, on April 9, two people were killed in another head-on crash about 8 miles west on Highway 132. In that incident, the CHP said, a 28-year-old man from San Leandro was driving a Mercedes-Benz west in the highway’s eastbound lane near the community of Vernalis around 3:15 a.m. The Mercedes collided head-on with an eastbound Kia driven by a 20-year-old woman from Modesto.
Two passengers in the Kia, a man and a woman from Modesto, were killed. The drivers of the Kia and the Mercedes suffered major injuries.That stretch of Highway 132 — Maze Boulevard and Vernalis Road — is a two-lane road through agricultural land between Modesto and Interstate 580 south of Tracy. The speed limit is 55 mph.
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