The Desert Sun
Brett Kelman and Colin Atagi
April 15, 2014
Another Twentynine Palms Marine is injured in a separate crash on Highway 62.
A High Desert Marine was killed in a car crash in Twentynine Palms early Saturday. One day later, another crash in the neighboring city of Joshua Tree left a military policeman severely injured and fatally wounded his wife.
Lance Cpl. Cory Coumbes, 24, a rifleman stationed at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, was killed in a two-car collision at the intersection of Lear Avenue and Two Mile Road about 3 a.m. Saturday. Coumbes was a passenger in a Kia Soul hit broadside by a Honda Fit that ran a stop sign, said Cindy Bachman, public information officer for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
The following day, another car crash, this time along Highway 62 in Joshua Tree, left five people hospitalized, including Angela G. Matthews, 25, who died Tuesday afternoon from her injuries.
Her husband Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher Matthews, a 28-year-old military policeman stationed in Twentynine Palms was wounded in the crash as was the couple's 1-year-old daughter.
One week prior to that crash, a third Marine, Cpl. Elmer VanHoorebeke Jr., died in a motorcycle collision in Joshua Tree National Park.
All three crashes occurred within three weeks of an extensive, three-day Desert Sun series on the untimely deaths of local Marines.
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