Coroner IDs 2 Men Killed In Palm Desert Crash

Palm Desert CA

13 September, 2021

12:27 PM

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PALM DESERT, CA — The Riverside County coroner's office named the two people who were killed in a two-vehicle crash in Palm Desert that also injured a third person. The crash was reported at 4:33 a.m. Sunday on Highway 111 at Fred Waring Drive, according to Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department. Gilberto Gomez, 52, of Indio and Oscar Juarez Barrios, 17, of Mecca were both pronounced dead at the scene, the coroner's office said. The seriously injured patient was taken by paramedics in a ground ambulance to a hospital for treatment, fire officials said. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department was investigating the crash.