HEMET: Two injured in head-on collision
HEMET – Two people were injured in a two-vehicle, head-on collision on Christmas day, Sunday, Dec. 25. The accident happened in the area of Park Avenue just south of Terrace Drive in Hemet, on the border of San Jacinto.
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Emergency first responders were dispatched to the location after Riverside County emergency dispatchers received several 911 calls from citizens reporting the traffic collision. Callers advised both drivers were trapped inside the mangled wrecks of their vehicles.
Officials from Hemet Fire and Police Departments, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, and AMR medics arrived on scene and found a red Ford mustang and a black Honda CRV that had collided head-on into each other.
Firefighters performed a cut and rescue to free the trapped occupants from the vehicles before the victims were transported to local area hospitals for further treatment.
The full extent of the victim’s injuries were not immediately known.
Hemet police officers are investigating the cause of the collision.
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Trevor Montgomery spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg in an off-duty accident.
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including the Robert Presley Detention Center, the Southwest Station in Temecula, the Hemet Station, and the Lake Elsinore Station, along with many other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, Personnel and Background Investigations and he finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator.
Trevor has been married for more than 26 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and has 13 children and 12 – soon to be 13 – grandchildren.