Motorist suffers serious injuries in fiery crash in De Luz

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DE LUZ (CNS) - A motorist suffered serious injuries this morning in a fiery rollover crash on a rural road near the San Diego-Riverside county line, authorities said. The solo-vehicle crash was reported around 6:40 a.m. on Carancho Road near De Luz Road, west of Temecula and northeast of De Luz, Cal Fire San Diego Capt. Thomas Shoots said. A vehicle went off the side of the roadway and overturned, causing a brush fire which grew to around 50 feet before firefighters stopped the forward rate of spread a short time later, Shoots said. The driver was able to get out of the wreckage, then another motorist spotted the crash and took the victim a short distance up the road, presumably to get a better cellphone signal to call 911, the fire captain said. Crews from the Riverside County Fire De
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