​big-rig driver flees after lethal pickup truck crash - CBS information

A pickup truck lies below a tractor-trailer after it changed into hit by the 18-wheeler on April 30, 2016, in Vernon, California.

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VERNON, Calif. -- Authorities talked about the driving force of a huge-rig that crushed a pickup truck in a la suburb unhitched the trailer and fled the scene after the deadly crash, CBS la station KCBS reported.

Police were hunting for that trucker. The suspect turned into not identified.

The 18-wheeled rig became worried in a minor crash about a block away earlier than it ran a crimson mild and hit the pickup presently after 3 a.m. Saturday in Vernon, police observed.

Video from the scene confirmed the big-rig's trailer lying on desirable of the mangled truck.

a person within the pickup truck died at the scene. the motive force became freed from the wreckage and brought to a sanatorium. There turned into no notice on the motive force's situation.

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