The driver of one of the big rigs was taken to Desert Regional Medical Center with unknown injuries
Thousand Palms, CA. – 31-year-old Fabian Zamora, of Indio, had been identified by the Riverside County Coroner’s Office as the man who died in a car crash in Thousand Palms on Tuesday night.
The double-fatal crash happened on Interstate 10 Freeway near Varner Road at around 1 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.
A car and two big rigs were involved in the collision. The circumstances surrounding the collision were not immediately determined.
Zamora and 49-year-old Carolina Navarrete De Leal of Coachella were killed in the accident.
The driver of one of the big rigs was taken to Desert Regional Medical Center with unknown injuries.
Additional information was not provided.
An investigation into the accident is underway.