Gysen, a Dutch immigrant, moved to the High Desert in 2005. Schank is the president of The Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D. C. He is also the former transportation policy adviser to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton. California Highway Patrol officers are investigating. Eight minutes later, medics arrived at the crash scene. Schank said this finding was particularly intriguing. If any of these segments see a spree of accidents, Caltrans will automatically investigate if a safety project is necessary. It was Friday, so he prepared to drive to the bus yard at the edge of town to pick up his paycheck. The crumpled car bounced off the highway, flipped on its roof and slid into a dirt berm. Officials say the five surviving victims were taken to the hospital. Over the past 18 months, about $6 million has been spent to add medians, sidewalks and stoplights on Highway 62 in the city.
To combat crashes on this stretch of highway, Caltrans plans to widen shoulders and install "rumble strips" on three half-mile sections of the highway. In court documents, the Marine Corps has admitted that their Humvee struck the sedan, but deny that the driver fell asleep. According to the Arkansas State Poice crash report, the crash happened around 7 p. on U. A man is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Parkland County on Thursday. The I-10 is more important. Current Route 62 Traffic Conditions. Between 2007 and 2012, drivers below the age of 21 made up only about 6 percent of the driving population, but are involved in anywhere from 10 to 19 percent of fatal accidents. UNION TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WCMH) — One man is dead after a crash near Union Township, Fayette County, Wednesday afternoon. According to a 2008 study from the Center for Naval Analyses, Marines who returned from deployment in the past three to six months are 60 percent more at risk of dying in a vehicle accident. 1 million, is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2018. Many High Desert officials attribute the frequency of crashes on Highway 62 to the fact that a majority of the highway does not have medians separating the oncoming lanes. The average for all California roads was 1. If you would like to contribute any information or have any concern with this story, please contact us as soon as possible.
But it was not unusual. On Highway 62, only 44 percent of fatal accidents involved drugs or alcohol. San Diego: Motorcycle Accident on Interstate 5 - March 10, 2023. Nowhere is this trend more apparent then on a 50-mile stretch of highway east of Twentynine Palms, between Utah Road and Route 177. Highway projects require the blessing of the state government and a combination of local, state and federal funding.
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Two people were killed Monday in a head-on collision on State Road 62, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The driver of the semitrailer and a passenger inside suffered minor injuries. Congressman Paul Cook, who represents the High Desert, said slow progress on Highway 62 safety projects was a constant source of frustration during his stint on the Yucca Valley Town Council from 1999 to 2006. Oregon State Police (OSP) says its Central Point Office, alongside the Medford Police Department (MPD) and Jackson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO), is having a Saturation Patrol on Dec. 23. Kumar was pinned underneath the vehicle and died at the scene. The driver later died at the hospital on Nov 8th.
Police said emergency crews were called to a single-vehicle crash on Range Road 273 near Highway 627 just before 8 a. Although few cars drive here, this portion of the highway averages more than one fatal crash per year. GET NEWS & WEATHER ALERTS | Download the 12News App to your mobile device. Between 2002 and 2012, Highway 62 suffered 3. These projects often take years, and sometimes decades, to coordinate and complete. Police say the crash happened around 3 p. m. Wednesday and left 45-year-old Earl Burton dead. They had seen a familiar silver van mangled on Highway 62, so they had come to the Gysen house to check on Johannes. Quitano was only three blocks from the auto-pedestrian crash hotspot The Desert Sun identified. When Smith went to pass, OSP said, she collided head-on with 35-year-old Elyse Hines of Eagle Point in a Subaru Legacy heading the opposite direction. It took nearly two decades to make them a reality. Johannes Gysen never saw it coming.
Vidal, CA (January 29, 2023) – The California Highway Patrol group reported a deadly traffic accident that occurred on State Route Highway 62, also known as Aqueduct Road. The rural road is the main thoroughfare for more than 60, 000 residents of the High Desert, spread throughout the cities of Joshua Tree, Morongo Valley, Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley. This was an average, uneventful shift, but there were glimpses of accidents that could have been: An older woman driving 82 mph in a 60 mph zone; a fender bender involving a woman with two prior DUIs; a Marine in a moving van, drifting between lanes when he reached for his soda. Andy Takada, interim city manager of Twentynine Palms, said he would like to follow the lead of his neighboring towns by adding medians or barrier posts to his section of the highway. Although fatal crashes run the length of Highway 62, some sections of the road have proven deadlier than the rest. Schank said rural roads are generally more dangerous than urban roads because they have less lighting, higher speeds, less seat belt use and more drunk driving.