BEAUMONT (CNS) - Authorities today were investigating a collision
between an SUV and a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10 in Beaumont that killed a
31-year-old U.S. Navy Serviceman stationed in Twentynine Palms.The fatality occurred about 12:35 p.m. Friday on westbound I-10 at
Beaumont Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.The agency said that a Kia Sportage plowed into the back of a big rig
hauling a 53-foot trailer that had stopped in the slow lane near the Beaumont
Avenue off-ramp.The Kia's driver, a U.S. Navy serviceman from Burgaw, North Carolina,
suffered blunt force head trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene by
paramedics, the CHP said.Authorities said the Navy serviceman -- whose name was withheld
pending notification of his family -- had be
