Crime & Safety

Highway Fatality Near Borrego Springs Sunday

The accident occurred on eastbound Montezuma Road.

California Highway Patrol was investigating a vehicle fatality in a remote section of San Diego County Sunday.

It was not immediately known how many people or vehicles were involved in a fatality that occurred on eastbound Montezuma Road near mile marker 7 just outside Borrego Springs about 2:20 p.m.

Officers shut down eastbound lanes of Montezuma Road between Chimney Rock and Borrego Desert Lookout for an indefinite period of time, a CHP dispatcher said. It was not known if there were other injuries.

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