Galt Officers Involved In Deadly Highway 99 Head-On Crash

GALT (CBS13) — One serviceman remains successful captious information and different serviceman is unchangeable aft a fatal head-on clang on Highway 99 Sunday morning, the Galt Police Department said.

The officers, whose names person not been released, were transported to UC Davis Medical Center with large injuries.

The operator of the conveyance that collided with the patrol car died astatine the scene, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The clang happened astatine astir 4:35 a.m. erstwhile investigators accidental a Dodge Ram pickup motortruck was traveling astatine an chartless complaint of velocity connected Southbound Highway 99 erstwhile it collided with the halfway median, breaking done the factual obstruction and colliding head-on with the Galt patrol conveyance traveling connected Northbound Highway 99, the CHP reported.

The driver, who has not been identified, sustained fatal injuries. Two passengers — a 26-year-old from Dublin and a 26-year-old from Turlock — received mean injuries and were transported to a section hospital, according to a CHP report.

The officers, a antheral and a female, had to beryllium extricated from the patrol conveyance earlier being taken to the hospital.

In a societal media post, Galt Mayor Shawn Farmer was asking for prayers for the officers and their families.

He says the municipality of Galt is adjacent to its constabulary department.

“It’s hard. Our section is heavy supported by our community,” helium said.

Jeff Silack says affable constabulary interactions successful his hometown hap each the time.

“We benignant of person a idiosyncratic narration and we question to them erstwhile we thrust by, we spot them, and they speech to us. We emotion them and we enactment them totally,” helium said.

Now his assemblage is rallying down the 2 officers whose telephone to enactment to assistance with the Caldor Fire was tragically interrupted

“They are the crushed wherefore this municipality is the mode it is. These guys are dedicated, and they halt astatine nothing,” said Lawrence Kremer who lives successful Galt.

The origin of the clang remains nether investigation, and it is chartless astatine this clip whether drugs oregon intoxicant played a role.

Renée Santos