A Yucca Valley man is suspected of causing two separate collisions, the second of which sent a pregnant woman to the hospital and resulted in the suspect’s car rolling multiple times.
According to the Sheriff’s press release, the incidents took place on Monday, May 13th in Yucca Valley. Deputies say that 34 year-old Wayne Major was traveling westbound on Twentynine Palms Hwy. when he failed to stop at the intersection at Sage Ave., colliding with a stopped vehicle. Major then fled the scene in his black 2003 Saturn Vue “at a high rate of speed with disregard for other motorists” according to the Sheriff’s report.
Major again failed to stop at the intersection of Aster Ave. and Onaga Trl. when he collided with a car traveling through the intersection. The driver of that car is in her late term pregnancy and was transported to the local hospital by ambulance.
Major’s vehicle rolled several times and came to rest in the yard of a nearby home. The female passenger of the car sustained traumatic injuries and was transported to a local hospital for life-saving treatment. Wayne Major also sustained injuries and was transported to Desert Regional Medical Center.
Deputies believe Major was driving under the influence of drugs during the collisions, and he was found to be in possession of suspected fentanyl.
Wayne Allen Major, 34, was released from the hospital and arrested for suspected DUI causing Bodily Injury and Possession of Unlawful Paraphernalia, and is being held at the Morongo Basin Station on $260,000 bail.
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