Man found dead near Mojave Desert highway
San Diego Union-Tribune
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUDLOW – An elderly man was found dead after he wandered from his disabled van in the Mojave Desert on a day when temperatures soared above 100 degrees.
Elton Eugene Fields, 75, of Reno, Nev. was found Monday night about two miles south of his vehicle off Interstate 40, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner department said Tuesday.
Somebody reported Fields' empty vehicle and a search and rescue team found his body several hours later.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
It was the second time in a week that someone was found dead in the desert.
On June 16 a passer-by found the body of 77-year-old Joyce Sanders and her severely burned husband, 90-year-old Virgil Sanders, about 50 yards from their car in eastern San Bernardino County. Temperatures reached 116 degrees in the area that day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUDLOW – An elderly man was found dead after he wandered from his disabled van in the Mojave Desert on a day when temperatures soared above 100 degrees.
Elton Eugene Fields, 75, of Reno, Nev. was found Monday night about two miles south of his vehicle off Interstate 40, the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner department said Tuesday.
Somebody reported Fields' empty vehicle and a search and rescue team found his body several hours later.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
It was the second time in a week that someone was found dead in the desert.
On June 16 a passer-by found the body of 77-year-old Joyce Sanders and her severely burned husband, 90-year-old Virgil Sanders, about 50 yards from their car in eastern San Bernardino County. Temperatures reached 116 degrees in the area that day.
