IDENTIFIED: Yokuts Valley man killed crashing into tree

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – The man who was airlifted after colliding into a tree in Yokuts Valley has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner’s Office.

According to California Highway Patrol, Saturday evening they responded to Elwood Road and Fulgham Lane where they found a truck collided with a tree.

A man, identified by the coroner as 44-year-old Jack Borders of Yokuts Valley, was driving his truck northbound on Elwood Road when for unknown reasons, he veered to the right dirt shoulder before crashing.

CHP says the two men in the truck both exited before they were transported to a local hospital.

Borders was airlifted before he was pronounced dead whereas his passenger was transported via ground with moderate injuries.

Detectives are actively working to determine if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash.

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