Menifee Man ID'd As I-10 Single-Vehicle Crash Victim: Coroner

MENIFEE, CA — A Menifee man who died in Desert Hot Springs was identified Tuesday, after his next of kin was notified. The California Highway Patrol was investigating the fatal crash that ended his life.

Alvin Cunningham, 47, was fatally injured at about 1:45 p.m. Monday at the North Indian Canyon off-ramp, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department's coroner's bureau.

"Cunningham was driving a Ford F-550, traveling at a high rate of speed, when his truck crashed into a concrete wall outside the curve that separates the on-ramp and off-ramp," CHP Officer David Torres said.

The truck continued through the wall and across a "clover-leaf" type on-ramp onto westbound I-10, where it came to a complete stop on a "sloped dirt surface," according to Torres.

Cunningham was unresponsive when he was removed from the vehicle before the truck caught fire, according to medics at the scene.

He was rushed to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, where he was pronounced dead an hour later by hospital staff.