No injuries after HUSD bus plows into trash truck

HEMET — No injuries were reported after a traffic collision between a school bus and trash truck in Hemet this afternoon, Friday, Feb. 22. No children were on board the bus when the crash happened at the intersection of State St. and Mayberry Ave.

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City of Hemet Police and Fire Departments, along with other emergency personnel, were alerted to the rear-end collision around 12:47 p.m.

Hemet Fire Battalion Chief Jamie Majchrzak was first to arrive on scene and reported finding a Hemet Unified school bus that had crashed into the back of a CR&R trash truck at the intersection. Chief Majchrzak soon updated there were no students on the bus and that neither drivers were injured. Both the responding firefighters and AMR ambulance crew were subsequently cancelled.

The bus sustained substantial front-end damage and was later towed from the scene. The trash truck was not damaged in the collision.

Hemet police officers closed down the northbound side of State St., while CHP was summoned to the scene. Although the accident happened within city limits, CHP investigates all accidents that involve school buses throughout the state.

Contacted for information about the collision, HUSD’s public information officer was not immediately available.

CHP’s investigation into the cause of the collision is ongoing.

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Trevor Montgomery, 47, moved last year 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 15 – but soon to be 16 – grandchildren.