Firefighters responded to back-to-back crashes in Yucca Valley on Highway 62 this morning. The first crash happened about 7:10 this morning at Highway 62 and Cherokee Trail, with the second crash about a minute later at Sage Avenue and the highway. The vehicles had been T-boned at their respective intersections. However, there was a mix-up and responding firefighters weren’t aware of the earlier crash at Cherokee Trail. They arrived at the crash at Sage Avenue and extricated a woman and a man; the woman was taken to Desert Hospital in Palm Springs; the man was taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center. Firefighters then learned of the other crash at Cherokee Trail. A man at that crash was taken to Hi-Desert Medical Center.
