Yucca Valley woman dies after vehicle plunges down mountainside near Highway 243

Luis Medina PINE COVE, Calif. (KUNA) – A 71-year-old woman was killed when her pickup truck plunged down a mountainside near Pine Cove, authorities said today. Yucca Valley resident Cheryl Brault was fatally injured around 5 p.m. Monday on Mount Edna Road, just west of Highway 243, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP). Officer Jonathan Torres reported that a driver traveling on the narrow, two-lane roadway spotted Brault’s 1998 Jeep …