Minor Hemet fender-bender leads to roadside fight

HEMET — According to witnesses, two men “let their testosterone get to them” leading to a street-side fight after a minor damage traffic collision earlier today, Monday, Oct. 21. Although one of the men involved in the fight sustained minor injuries during the scuffle, which happened near the intersection of Florida and California avenues on the city’s west end, neither men required hospitalization.

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Hemet police officers were dispatched to the collision around noon, after receiving reports of a non-injury, two-vehicle fender bender.

While officers were responding to the scene the two drivers exited their vehicles and began arguing about the cause of the collision, witnesses later reported.

Officers interview a man whose chin was bloodied after he became involved in a street-side brawl following a minor-damage fender bender in Hemet this afternoon. Sergio Rodriguez/Hemet Valley Incidents

As the argument escalated, the drivers became involved in a physical altercation, that resulted with the two men rolling around on the ground wrestling with each other as the fight continued.

Witnesses to the collision and subsequent fight reportedly pulled over and intervened, breaking up the scuffle, just as officers began arriving at the scene. The violent confrontation resulted in one of the two men receiving some minor injuries to his chin, but neither men required hospitalization due to the crash or fight.

Witnesses later said the older of the two men involved in the crash, whose silver Ford Ranger pickup truck was rear-ended by the younger driver of a Chevy pickup truck, was the primary aggressor in the fight. He was also the only one injured in the physical confrontation.

No arrests were made after neither men told officers who investigated the crash and altercation that they desired prosecution against the other and officials deemed the fight to have been mutually engaged.

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Trevor Montgomery, 48, 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 or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News, (the now defunct) Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; 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 29 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.