"Yamel Angel said she and her mother were driving north when they suddenly found themselves in the middle of the crash, which was captured on video from inside their car. "I had no shoes. I just ran out. We ran to the grass as fast as we could and we just watched everything happen," Angel said. Video Angel, later posted to TikTok, shows widespread destruction, with victims standing in the center divider as they tried to get to safety."
""There were people trying to help trying to help the injured. It was really bad. My heart was racing really fast. Everything flashed my head went blank," Angel said. Dashcam footage from a different vantage point shows the start of a second pileup, including a semi-truck losing control and slamming into the center median. Video shared by Kern County Crime Streams highlights just how dense the fog was at the time of the crashes."
A 59-vehicle pileup occurred early Saturday morning on Highway 99 in Tulare County as drivers traveled north from Oxnard to the Central Valley. Dense fog contributed to multiple collisions that spread across both sides of the highway, including a separate crash where a semi-truck lost control and struck the center median. Victims exited vehicles and sought safety on the center divider and roadside grass while bystanders attempted rescues. Emergency crews transported injured people to hospitals; one woman suffered head and hip injuries and her mother sustained a back injury. Tow companies worked into the afternoon to clear wreckage.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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