HEMET: Still learning to drive, teen crashes into home
HEMET — A teenage boy learning how to drive a stick shift with his mother reportedly got confused regarding which pedal to use and lost control – crashing into the corner of a home earlier this afternoon. The non-injury accident happened at the corner of Bordeaux Ln. and N. Meridian St. in Hemet.
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City of Hemet Police and Fire Departments along with other emergency first responders were dispatched to the 4000 block of Bordeaux Ln. about 4:15 p.m., after receiving reports that a car had crashed into a home.
Officials are investigating after a new driver crashed into a home earlier this afternoon. Robert Carter/Public Safety Incidents photo
When officials arrived at the scene they found a black Toyota Corolla that had crashed into the corner of a home’s attached garage. Both the small sedan’s front-end and the corner of the home’s garage sustained moderate damage.
Both the boy and his mother as well as the occupants from the home appeared shaken, but uninjured in the crash. Firefighters quickly determined nobody required medical treatment and cancelled AMR’s response to the scene.
Hemet PD officials investigating the cause of the accident determined the car’s two occupants were traveling northbound on Meridian St. when the teenage driver attempted to make a left turn onto Bordeaux Ln.
The driver, who has not been identified due to his age, reportedly confused the brake and clutch pedals in the manually transmissioned car and lost control of the vehicle. The sedan drove up and over a curb and across a home’s front lawn, before crashing into the corner of the home’s garage.
Witnesses at the scene later advised the boy had a learner’s permit and was legally in control of the sedan at the time of the crash.
The full cause of the accident is still under investigation and Hemet PD’s investigation is ongoing.
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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 several other news organizations, including Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News, The Valley Chronicle and Anza Valley Outlook, as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County and The Mountain Echo in Shasta 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. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s 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 – soon to be 15 – grandchildren.