Crime & Safety
CHP: Speeding Motorist Crashes off Temescal Canyon Into Power Pole
Witnesses told California Highway Patrol officers that a truck towing a trailer was traveling at 100 miles per hour when it went off the roadway and rolled 20 feet down an embankment, snapping a power pole in half, the CHP reported.
A motorist suffered major injuries when a speeding truck hauling a trailer careened off a road in the Corona area and rolled down an embankment and into a power pole, snapping it, authorities said Monday.
The accident occurred on Temescal Canyon and Leroy roads in an unincorporated area just southwest of Corona around 5:40 p.m. Sunday, said Riverside County Fire Department spokeswoman Melody Hendrickson.
"Firefighters responded to a vehicle-versus-power pole traffic collision with entrapment," Hendrickson said. "The patient was extricated and transported to an area hospital via MERCY ground ambulance with major injuries."
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Witnesses told California Highway Patrol officers that a truck towing a trailer was traveling at 100 miles per hour when it went off the roadway and rolled 20 feet down an embankment, snapping a power pole in half, the CHP reported.
The accident scene remained closed through the night and early Monday morning as a crash investigation was under way, according to the CHP.
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No details about the injured motorist were immediately released.
—City News Service.
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