Eight men died in a head-on crash in Madera County early Friday morning.
According to the California Highway Patrol, it appears a pickup crossed into oncoming traffic, hitting a van carrying farmworkers on their way to work.
The driver of the pickup, the van's driver and six of his passengers were killed. One passenger in the van survived.
"Multiple people in the van were not wearing their seatbelts," said Sgt. Javier Ruvalcaba, California Highway Patrol. "They weren't properly restrained. As a result of that, they sustained fatal injuries."
The crash happened in a rural area of the county on Avenue 7. The farmworkers were reportedly headed to a vineyard in Firebaugh.
