Crime & Safety
Search Underway For Driver Who Fled Fatal Crash
A woman was a passenger in a vehicle and killed in accident along Highway 111.
LA QUINTA, CA – Sheriff's deputies today were looking for a driver who fled the scene of a single-vehicle crash that killed a woman.
The crash was reported at 8:22 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 111 and Dune Palms Road, said Jody Hagemann of the Riverside County Fire Department.
The woman was a passenger in the vehicle, and she died at the scene, Hagemann said.
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Westbound Highway 111 was closed between Dune Palms and La Quinta Drive, while deputies searched for the suspect, said Deputy Armando Munoz of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
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