3 children & driver uninjured in Hemet after airborne car plows through fence, smashes into light pole

October 20, 2018 Trevor Montgomery

HEMET — No injuries were reported after a small sedan veered off the roadway, mowed down a metal fence outside a Hemet assisted care facility, and smashed head-on into a metal light pole this afternoon, Saturday, Oct. 20.

Officials are still working to determine the cause of the crash, which ended up in the parking lot of The Village Assisted Living Facility, on N. Kirby St. just north of W. Acacia Ave.

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City of Hemet Police and Fire Departments, along with other emergency personnel were dispatched to the southwest corner of facility’s parking lot about 4:20 p.m., after receiving reports of a vehicle that crashed through a fence and into a pole. 911 callers reported there were several children and an adult inside the car who were possibly injured.

A heavy, twelve-foot section of wrought iron fencing was thrown about 50 feet by a car that plowed into it. Gary Rainwater/Hemet Valley Incidents photo

When officials arrived they found a green Nissan sedan with heavy front-end damage against a light pole that was leaning precariously over the parking lots’ entrance. A woman and three juveniles, including two girls and a young boy, were found near the wrecked car.

Firefighter-paramedics evaluated the four occupants from the vehicle, checking each one for potential injuries. None appeared injured and all declined further treatment at the scene.

Officers investigating the solo-vehicle crash determined the driver lost control while heading northbound on Kirby when the driver suddenly veered off the roadway and jumped the curb at high-speed, narrowly avoiding a telephone pole and fire hydrant.

The airborne sedan then plowed through a twelve-foot section of white, wrought iron fencing. The out of control car then smashed head-on into a light pole inside the facility’s parking lot; mowing down shrubbery and large decorative boulders and narrowly avoiding two large trees along the way.

The impact of the car going through the fence launched the heavy section of fencing about fifty feet across the parking lot and into a tree.

“Thankfully, there were no people walking around where she came crashing through that fence,” Hemet resident Bob Newman later said. “As fast as she was going when she jumped over that curb and through that fence, someone really could have gotten hurt.”

No other vehicles within the parking lot were damaged by the out of control Nissan or other crash debris.

Hemet PD’s investigation is ongoing and officials have not yet released any information about the crash.

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Trevor Montgomery, 47, recently moved to the Intermountain area of 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 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 28 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 14 – but soon to be 16 – grandchildren.