A Tulare County SheriffÕs deputy died early Tuesday morning after losing control of the vehicle he was driving. The driver, Deputy Jeremy Meyst, 31, was heading back from Porterville with two inmates in a SheriffÕs transport vehicle. He lost control of the van for an unknown reason and clipped the guard rails of the Friant-Kern Canal bridge. He was heading north on Spruce Road toward Highway 198 when he crashed. The deputy was ejected from the van.
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