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Five people injured in April 23 accident outside Reedley
By Juanita Adame
Mid Valley Times
A red sedan with broken windows and major front end damage ended up in a grass field near the intersections of Parlier Avenue and Engle- hart Avenue on the afternoon of April 23 following a traffic accident.
“It appears that a sedan was traveling westbound on Parlier Avenue, and a GMC suv was traveling north- bound on Englehart, and they collided because the red car did not stop at the stop sign,”
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while Fresno County's percentage stood at 64.4 percent according to the California vaccination website.
COVID cases in Cali- fornia and the United States continue at a rela- tively stable level, but the recent outbreak in China has continued to affect its two largest cit- ies. After Shanghai un- derwent substantial lock- down measures from its latest outbreak, Beijing now is dealing with a fresh spike in cases.
According to the New York Times, Beijing's municipal government has ordered that nearly all of the city's popula- tion of 3.5 million would have to take three tests for the virus over five days. That came after 70 cases had been dis- covered in the city since late last week.
In the United States,
said Christopher Swanberg, a sergeant with the California Highway Patrol. “There were two people inside the red car one was airlifted to CRMC and three people went to CRMC via ground ambulance.”
Swanberg said the person who was airlifted suffered major injuries.
A man who lives near the intersection said he’s wit- nessed many accidents near that stretch of road and was even involved in a traffic acci- dent at the same intersection in October 2021.
“The wife and I were com-
ing home and as we drove into the intersection of Englehart and Parlier, a man ran the stop sign and hit us," said Todd
A fire engine with
the Reedley Fire Department was on the scene of a two- vehicle accident at the intersection of Parlier and Englehart avenues on April 23. Five people were injured and four hospitalized, one with major injuries.
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Graham. "Our car ended up in the orchard."
Graham lives just north of Parlier Avenue.
“There needs to be a stop sign at this intersection and at the next intersection to prevent this from happening again,” he said.
The California Highway Patrol said a total of five peo- ple were transported to the hospital with the airlifted vic- tim included. The other four victims suffered only minor injuries.
“We don’t have any witness statements right now but it appears with the driver of the SUV that’s what happened,” Swanberg said. “We are still investigating.”
As of the Tuesday, April 26 update, there were 231,951 total cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) out of 2,655,106 tests in Fresno County, with 2,744 deaths and 36 people hospitalized (2 in ICU).
and 20 deaths. Del Rey was at an updated 482 cases (1,287 in region) while the Fowler region had 1,726 cases (1,700 in the community) and a continued 32 deaths through April 19. Squaw Valley (231 cases), Dunlap and Miramonte continued with a total case number of 590.
Among Mid Valley Times cities in the county through April 26 (no recent updates), the Reedley region still has the most overall positive cases with 9,744 (an updated 5,600 in the city proper), and an increase to 95 deaths in data on the Fresno County Department of Public Health website.
In Tulare County, there were 105,808 confirmed cases (154 active, an increase of 24 for the week) of COVID-19 with 1,453 deaths and 10 people hospitalized (none in ICU) as of Tuesday, April 26. The breakdowns by cities/regions show 8,090 total cases in Dinuba, 2,766 in Orosi, 1,402 in Cutler, 527 in Traver, 213 in the rural area south of Reedley and 59 in the area southeast of Orange Cove.
Through April 26 with no region updates, Sanger (including immediate adjacent rural areas) still shows 9,556 cases (the figure includes 7,500 in the city) and 91 deaths; Parlier stood at 3,800 cases (3,815 region) with 52 deaths and Orange Cove had 2,300 (3,694 regional) cases
A total of 104,201 people (98.5 percent) in Tulare County were listed as recovered as of Tuesday, April 26.
the Food and Drug Ad- ministration has not yet cleared a COVID vaccine for children under five years of age. The New York Times reported that vaccine manufactures have not finished their
applications for authori- zation to distribute doses, according to a top FDA official.
The agency is expect- ed to release a schedule this week for outside ex- pert review of vaccina-
tions for the nation's 18 million children younger than 5 years. This re- mains the only age group still not eligible for a CO- VID shot. An authoriza- tion may not come until June.
COVID-19 update
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ational facilities. This comes in the light of numbers of homeless people who camp in parks and green space areas, a situation that has become more com- mon across the country.
Yanez told the coun- cil that the revised or- dinance complies with the current federal laws which give protec- tions to the homeless, and is similar to the or- dinance that neighbor- ing Tulare County city Visalia has in place. He called the ordinance "compassionate while protecting quality of life." The policy will al- low for proper notice while specifying details of set procedures.
During his presenta- tion, Yanez stated that the revised policy speci- fies hours of exemption that would help impose requirements while en-
forcing complacence. He said he will review further details regard- ing emergency situa- tions where the ordi- nance may be overruled.
In addition, recre- ational vehicle (RV) parceling also will be reviewed further. Yanez advised that pri- vate property camping would be considered a housing issue, and that day lounging is permit- ted in the parks as long as there are no tents or structures present.
Consent agenda items approved by the council included an ex- tension of a lease agree- ment with the Dinuba Unified School District for use of the Dinuba Vocational Center.
In ceremonial mat- ter, the council re- ceived the introduc- tion of the seven Cinco De Mayo contestants for the 2022 pageant, which takes place on Saturday, April 30, at Dinuba High School.
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