81-Year-Old Beaumont Woman ID'd As Victim In Fatal I-10 Crash

BEAUMONT, CA — A motorist killed in a crash on Interstate 10 in Beaumont was identified Saturday as an 81-year-old resident of the city.

Emily Moreth was fatally injured at about 4:30 p.m. Friday on eastbound I-10 at Oak Valley Parkway, according to California Highway Patrol.

Witnesses told the CHP that the victim was speeding in her gray SUV when she apparently lost control and plowed into a sign and through the freeway guard rail before crashing into a ditch near railroad tracks.

Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department paramedics reached the location a short time later and pronounced Moreth dead at the scene.

No other vehicles were involved.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.