MORENO VALLEY: 89-year-old fatal crash victim identified
MORENO VALLEY: 89-year-old fatal crash victim identified
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The Riverside County Coroner’s Office on Tuesday, Aug. 18, released the name of an 89-year-old woman who died in a crash Sunday in Moreno Valley.
Dorothy Viele, of Hemet, was pronounced dead at 3:21 a.m. Sunday, at the scene of the accident on the northbound side of Interstate 215 north of Cactus Avenue.
Viele was traveling 50-55 mph in a 1997 Oldsmobile that morning when she was rear-ended, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.
The woman who rear-ended her was identified as Susie Cortez, 22. Cortez, of Perris, was driving 70-75 mph when she struck Viele’s vehicle, the news release said.
