Driver in Double Fatality Coachella Valley Crash Accused of Second-Degree Murder
June 14, 2011
On Monday a 25-year-old West Corvina, California, man was ordered to stand trial on a slew of felony charges after allegedly driving drunk and causing a 2009 crash that killed two women on I-10 east of Coachella.
The man faces two counts of second-degree murder, as well as assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, driving under the influence causing injury, and evading arrest.
The July 12, 2009 accident occurred at 11 p.m. on westbound Interstate 10 near the Cactus City Rest Area when the man’s Toyota sedan plowed into a Dodge pickup truck with five people inside. A 43-year-old woman and her 75-year-old mother-in-law died in the crash. Both were residents of Whittier, California.
The man had been pulled over by Coachella police 40 minutes before the crash but drove off, leading an officer in a pursuit and eventually evading him. After the accident, the man again tried to flee but wasn’t able to make it over a dirt embankment and was arrested.
The man is due back in court on June 27.
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