The California Highway Patrol in Merced is investigating a fatal crash of a wrong-way driver on Highway 99 north of 16th Street early Tuesday.
A 68-year-old man from Santa Ana was killed in the crash. He had no passengers, the CHP said in a Facebook post.
At around 1:26 a.m., the CHP received reports of a driver travelling south in the northbound lanes of Highway 99. While CHP officers were en route, a caller reported the vehicle had crashed into the center median and gone off the highway…