HEMET: DUI suspected in solo-vehicle wreck
HEMET — An allegedly intoxicated man was arrested Monday afternoon after losing control of his vehicle and crashing through a chain link fence. The non-injury accident happened on N. Gilbert Street just south of Menlo Avenue.
An allegedly intoxicated man is led to a patrol vehicle after the man lost control of his car and crashed through a fence. Timothy Franzese/Public Safety Incidents photo
City of Hemet Police and Fire personnel along with other emergency first responders were dispatched to the location about 1:30 p.m., after receiving reports of a single-vehicle traffic collision.
Callers told City of Hemet emergency dispatchers a man wearing a blue shirt had been driving the car and did not appear to be injured.
When officials arrived they found a black Ford Mustang that had jumped a curb, run over an above ground telephone utilities box and crashed through a chain link fence. The vehicle came to rest mere feet from a wood fence and a home with a camping trailer in front of it.
According to a witness, after the accident a person who identified herself as the driver’s aunt came from a home across the street and asked the witness to lie and say she had been driving the Mustang and crashed it. When officers arrived, the woman then reportedly told officials she crashed the car after losing control.
Despite the woman’s request, when officers interviewed the man who witnessed the accident, he told officials the woman had not been driving the car and they directed authorities to the true driver.
Officers then made contact with the man callers originally reported seeing get out from the driver’s seat of the Mustang after the crash.
Officers who interviewed the man determined he was intoxicated and arrested him for driving under the influence. He was then transported to Hemet PD’s jail.
Nobody was injured in the accident.
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Trevor Montgomery, 46, recently moved to Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes for Riverside County based newspapers Valley News, The Valley Chronicle and Anza Valley Outlook as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County.
Trevor 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, breaking his back and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident.
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center and Lake Elsinore Station, along with 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 and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.
Trevor has been married for more than 27 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 14 grandchildren.