The Tule fog has a long history of putting the San Joaquin Valley under conditions ripe for catastrophe if drivers don’t take precautions on Highway 99 through Fresno County.
The Fresno Bee archives list deadly pileup collisions from Kingsburg in the south to Livingston to the north with sprawling crash sites from 15 vehicles up to 90. The large pileups date back to at least the 1990s and only grew larger as the highway expanded.
The latest pileup happened about 9:15 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, on the southbound side of Highway 99 between North and Cedar avenues, where 17 vehicles were involved. A 61-year-old driver was killed in the crash as the visibility got down to about a dozen feet, according to CHP…