News From Around The County
MENIFEE — A 27-year-old Perris man died after he was struck while walking in the westbound lanes of Highway 74. The fatal hit and run happened early Saturday morning, May 12, between Briggs and McKinley Roads in Menifee. Emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene shortly after 1 a.m., after receiving reports of a vehicle versus pedestrian traffic collision. […]
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HEMET — Sheriff’s officials have confirmed they are conducting an unattended death investigation after a man’s lifeless body was found along a hiking trail Sunday afternoon, Apr. 8. The victim’s body was discovered between Hemet and Mountain Center, along a hiking trail off SR-74, about seven miles east of Bee Canyon. Area resident Cindy Haskin later explained her adult son and a friend […]
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PALM DESERT — A motorist had to be cut free from their wrecked vehicle after plunging down a steep and rugged embankment along Hwy. 74, in an unincorporated area south of Palm Desert earlier tonight. The victim was hospitalized with moderate injuries, according to fire officials. Emergency first responders were dispatched to an area near Hwy. 74’s Mile Marker 89 along the Roy […]
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UPDATED: Monday, Mar. 26, 2 a.m. MOUNTAIN CENTER — Officials have released some additional details regarding the victim killed last Friday evening, Mar. 24. The deadly crash happened along westbound Highway 74 just east of Scenic Drive, in the Pinyon Pines area of Mountain Center. In a partial coroner’s release, Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s officials identified the victim killed in the crash as […]
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MOUNTAIN CENTER — Two people were seriously injured – one critically – Saturday evening, when the driver of an SUV reportedly attempted to pass another vehicle on a winding mountain road and plowed head-on into an oncoming commercial vehicle. Firefighters spent nearly two hours cutting the victims from the wrecked SUV after the accident, which happened on Highway 74 near Mountain Center, […]
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MOUNTAIN CENTER — An unlicensed motorcyclist died when his motorcycle drifted out of his lane of travel into oncoming traffic, Wednesday, Nov. 15. The fatal collision happened on SR-243, about one mile north of SR-74, in the unincorporated community of Mountain Center. Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner officials later identified Thai Yang, 40, of Banning, as the motorcyclist killed in the crash. He was pronounced deceased at […]
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MENIFEE — A Hemet resident was arrested after plowing his vehicle into a cement truck, Thursday, Nov. 9. The DUI-related accident happened on State Highway 74 near Sherman Road in Menifee. After investigating the collision, deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Menifee Police Station arrested 20-year-old, Austin Gregory Mikels, Riverside Sheriff’s Sergeant Lamb explained in a written press release after the accident and arrest. […]
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SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS – A driver was injured in a single-vehicle, rollover traffic accident Sunday, Feb. 5. The accident happened on State Route 74 near Mile-Marker 50.50, east of Bee Canyon Truck Trail and the unincorporated community of Valle Vista. Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters, California Highway Patrol officers, and American Medical Response medics responded to the scene about 2 p.m., […]
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VALLEY VISTA – Excessive speed and wet roads have been listed as contributing factors in an early-morning, two-vehicle, rollover traffic collision that killed a Hemet resident Monday, November 21. The accident happened about 3:50 a.m., on Highway 74, near the Hwy 74 Discount Outlet, about 100 feet west of Calvert Avenue in Valley Vista. Valley Vista is an unincorporated community located just […]
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UPDATE: 11/09/2016 3:30 p.m. HOMELAND – Coroner’s officials have released the name of the motorist killed in yesterday’s fatal, three-car, head-on traffic collision; as well as their preliminary findings into how the accident occurred. The victim killed in the collision has been identified as Jaime Bautista, 41, of Hemet. Coroner’s officials listed Bautista’s time of injury as 2 p.m. He succumbed to […]
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