How many lives did the Highway 46 crash claim?
Alcohol was reportedly a factor in a New Year’s Day crash that has added to the recent tale of carnage on Highway 46 in western Kern County. A mother and son from Shandon died Friday morning on Highway 46 after a Delano driver slammed into the rear of their vehicle and sent them careening into oncoming traffic, where they crashed head-on into a third vehicle. Richard Jung, 21, and his mother, Hyun Kim, 49, died at the scene of the accident from injuries sustained in the crash, according to a report from the Kern County coroner’s office. The crash happened at 10:09 a.m. on Highway 46 in Kern County just one mile east of the San Luis Obispo County line. According to reports from KGET Channel 17, California Highway Patrol officers said a driver from Delano was drunk and speeding when he slammed into the rear of Jung and Kim’s Honda Pilot. Coroner’s officials reported that no injuries were sustained by the driver of that vehicle. Occupants of the third vehicle, a truck that hit Jung and Ki
Bakersfield.com: Highway 46 crash claims Bakersfield man’s life BY JAMES BURGER, Californian staff writer Carl Logan, 71, of Bakersfield was the third person to die Friday after a terrible head-on collision on Highway 46. Logan and his wife Vivian Logan, 69, were headed west toward the coast in their 2008 Chevy pickup Friday morning when Herculano Hernandez, 23, of Delano sparked a chain-reaction crash that landed him in jail and snuffed out the lives of Logan and a mother and son from Shandon. According to California Highway Patrol officers Hernandez was drunk and speeding east toward Delano at the wheel of a 2000 Ford at around 10 a.m. when he rear-ended a Honda driven by Richard Jung, 21, of Shandon. Read more at the link below. Sources: h
Carl Logan, 71, of Bakersfield was the third person to die Friday after a terrible head-on collision on Highway 46. Logan and his wife Vivian Logan, 69, were headed west toward the coast in their 2008 Chevy pickup Friday morning when Herculano Hernandez, 23, of Delano sparked a chain-reaction crash that landed him in jail and snuffed out the lives of Logan and a mother and son from Shandon. According to California Highway Patrol officers Hernandez was drunk and speeding east toward Delano at the wheel of a 2000 Ford at around 10 a.m. when he rear-ended a Honda driven by Richard Jung, 21, of Shandon. Sources: http://www.bakersfield.
