Officers Investigate Reasons Behind Deadly I-10 Crash In Beaumont

Authorities today identified a 65-year-old man who was killed when his pickup truck slammed into the back of a big rig on Interstate 10 in Beaumont.

Edward Dodson III of Yucaipa died at the scene of the crash, which occurred around 9:30 Tuesday night on the eastbound 10, near Beaumont Avenue, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Darren Meyer.

He said Dodson apparently failed to see that a semi tractor-trailer was slowing to a stop ahead of him for road construction and plowed into the rear of the rig.

The victim’s 1992 Toyota pickup crumpled on impact, Meyer said.

The driver of the big rig was uninjured.