Woman in wheelchair killed in hit and run crash in Yucca Valley, similar fatal crash reported hours later
YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) - A 55-year-old woman in an electric wheelchair was struck and killed by a vehicle in a hit-and-run crash last week in Yucca Valley.
The crash was first reported on Nov. 6 at around 2 p.m. on Airway Avenue and Primrose Drive.
According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin Station, the investigation revealed that an unidentified vehicle approaching Primrose Drive collided with a woman operating an electric wheelchair across Airway Avenue.
The woman and her dog were ejected from the electric wheelchair. The suspect vehicle fled the scene and was seen traveling south on Airway Avenue toward Yucca Trail.
Paramedics responded and transported the woman to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, where she later succumbed to her injuries.
Anyone with information related to this investigation is asked to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department's Morongo Basin Station at (760) 366-4175. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may contact We-Tip at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463) or go to wetip.com.
It was the second crash that day in Yucca Valley where a person in a wheelchair was struck and killed by a vehicle. Nearly four hours after the crash on Airway Avenue, an 81-year-old woman in an electric wheelchair was killed on Yucca Trail and Frontera Avenue, about a mile away from the earlier crash.
The driver remained at the scene in the second crash and is cooperating with the investigation, authorities said.
