Juarez said that although the SPPD is still determining the circumstances leading up to the collision, there is no suspicion that alcohol was a factor in the crash.On Sunday the SPPD also responded to a report of an overturned Corvette at the 12th Street Bridge and South Mountain Road in an unincorporated area of the county, an incident being investigated by the California Highway Patrol.
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A Santa Paula Firefighter and other emergency personnel look over the 2003 Ford Ranger that overturned following a collison at Harvard and 10th Streets Friday evening. (Photo by Don Johnson) |
Truck overturns, Mini-Cooper stays on its wheels after collision
June 25, 2008
Santa Paula Police Department
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula TimesSanta Paula Police are investigating a two-vehicle collision that left a truck overturned - but a Mini-Cooper on its wheels - Friday evening, blocking a busy intersection. According to Lieutenant Carlos Juarez, the SPPD received a report on an injury accident at 10th Street and East Harvard Boulevard at 10:43 p.m. on June 20.The accident - which is still under investigation - involved a 2006 green Mini-Cooper and a 2003 Ford Ranger truck, a “bad combination,” Juarez noted. But the Mini-Cooper, driven by Brian Nysewander, 30, of Pebble Beach, remained upright after it collided with the truck driven by 63-year-old Kenneth Schmidt, a resident of Santa Paula.Although Schmidt complained of pain following the accident, no one - including two passengers in Nysewander’s Mini-Cooper - was injured in the collision. The overturned truck blocked the intersection west of 10th Street before both vehicles were towed from the scene.
