CHP to recommend charges against big rig driver after fatal crash near Lodi

The California Highway Patrol’s Stockton office said on Wednesday that it will recommend prosecutors charge the driver of a big rig following a fatal crash that shut down southbound Highway 99 near Lodi for nearly 10 hours last week.

The crash happened shortly after noon on September 2 on southbound Highway 99 south of Jahant Road and involved two big rigs and two pickup trucks.

One pickup truck driver, 23-year-old Johnatan Cervantes Torres of Sacramento, was killed in the crash. The three other drivers involved in the crash were not injured…

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