Essex News

On 09/23/2012, at 3:36 AM, the California Highway Patrol received a 911 call reporting a single vehicle rollover in the center divider of Interstate 40, at mile marker 105, in Essex, CA.

YUCCA VALLEY MAN KILLED IN MOTORCYCLE CRASH IN ESSEX THURSDAY A Yucca Valley man was killed Thursday evening in a traffic collision in Essex, about 30 miles east of Amboy.

When officers arrived they found thatA James Melvin Wood, a 59 year-old resident of Yucca Valley , the sole rider of a 2006 Kawasaki, had been traveling westbound on National Trails Highway, when he was struck by a red Kia traveling eastbound that had drifted into the westbound lane.

Flash flooding on Tuesday forced the closure of an 2-mile stretch of Highway 62 in Twentynine Palms.