Officials at scene of pickup upside down and submerged in creek off 299E
UPDATED: Monday, May 6, 11:30 a.m.
See Original Story and earlier updates below.
BELLA VISTA — At 9:35 a.m., CHP’s incident log updated that a tow truck had arrived at the scene of this morning’s reported rollover crash, which left a green Dodge Dakota pickup truck upside down and partially submerged in Little Cow Creek, just south of SR-299E, between the communities of Bella Vista and Montgomery Creek.
Officials closed one side of the winding, two-lane mountain roadway to allow for the wrecker to winch the overturned pickup from the creek and about 75 feet back up an embankment to the highway above. According to CHP’s log, officials had implemented one-way traffic control to facilitate the wrecked truck’s recovery.
About an hour later, at around 10:30 a.m., CHP updated CalTrans officials that the roadway would remain blocked for about ten more minutes, until the truck’s recovery was completed.
This is a developing story that will be updated as new information is available.
UPDATED: Monday, May 6, 8:30 a.m.
See Original Story below.
BELLA VISTA — CHP and other emergency personnel have begun arriving at the scene of a rollover traffic accident involving a pickup truck that reportedly rolled down a steep embankment and came to rest upside down in Little Cow Creek, south of 299E, between Bella Vista and Montgomery Creek.
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The first officer to arrive in the area confirmed finding a green, Dodge Dakota pickup truck, upside down and submerged in the creek. The officer described the truck as looking “crunched up and overturned,” according to a CHP incident log.
The officer told emergency dispatchers that the accident appears to have happened near MM48, near an abandoned house, and also reported that the overturned and submerged truck is about 75 feet from the roadway and not effecting area traffic.
The officer later reported finding a ribbon tied to a tree near the accident scene, indicating the crash may have already been reported and investigated. Based on that information, officials are checking previous incident logs to determine if the truck had previously been reported as being upside down and submerged in the water.
At 8:25 CHP requested a wrecker to the scene to pull the pickup truck from the creek and winch it back up the embankment and onto the roadway.
As of this report, it was not yet known if anyone had been found inside the wrecked and submerged pickup truck.
Contacted for further information, CHP advised the collision investigation is not effecting area traffic at this time, but could not provide any further details about their active and ongoing investigation at the scene.
This is a developing story that will be updated as new information is available.
BELLA VISTA — Officials are headed to the scene of a reported solo-vehicle, rollover traffic accident between the communities of Bella Vista and Montgomery Creek area this morning, Monday, May 6.
According to a CHP incident log and official radio traffic, the vehicle was spotted by garbage collectors who saw a pickup truck upside down and partially submerged in in Little Cow Creek, which runs adjacent to SR-299E, on the south side of the highway.
CHP, Shasta County-Cal Fire, and other emergency personnel, were dispatched to the 27000 block of Hwy 299E, west of DuBois Rd. about 7:55 a.m., after an area resident called 911 to report what the waste management employees had seen and reported to them.
The 911 caller relayed to emergency dispatchers that the vehicle appeared to be a green Dodge pickup truck that had gone over the edge of the winding, two-lane mountain roadway, and ended up upside down and submerged in Little Cow Creek.
As of this 8:15 a.m. report, CHP and other fire and rescue personnel were still headed to the area and no officials had arrived at the scene yet.
This is a developing story that will be updated as new information is available.
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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.