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The Kern County Coroner has identified the man who died early Thursday morning on the Southbound I-5 south of Laval Road near the Grapevine Inspection Facility as 52-year-old Hmayak Yeghiazaryan from North Hollywood.
Yeghiazaryan was the operator of a box truck that collided with a tractor trailer just after 3 a.m. on Thursday.
Officials said that he was declared deceased at the scene.
