MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The identities of the six-year-old and the two teens who died in a crash in Madera County Saturday have been provided to YourCentralValley.com by the pastor of their church.

Pastor Dustin Maddox from North Fresno Church identified the six-year-old as Serenity Valenzuela and the two teens as 17-year-old Jezreel Ochoa-Valle and 15-year-old James Valle.

On Saturday, officers responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash near Road 24 and Avenue 7, west of Ripperdan.

Investigators reported a big rig hauling two trailers was headed westbound on Avenue 7 just as a van, with five occupants, was headed southbound on Road 24, approaching a stop sign. For unknown reasons, CHP said the driver of the van ran the stop sign and entered the road directly into the path

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