A motorist killed in a crash on Interstate 10 in Beaumont was identified Saturday as an 81-year-old resident of the city.
Emily Moreth was fatally injured at about 4:30 p.m. Friday on eastbound I-10 at Oak Valley Parkway, according to California Highway Patrol.
Witnesses told the CHP that the victim was speeding in her gray SUV when she apparently lost control and plowed into a sign and through the freeway guard rail before crashing into a ditch near railroad tracks.
Riverside County Fire Department paramedics reached the location a short time later and pronounced Moreth dead at the scene.
No other vehicles were involved.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.