Vista Man Freed After North San Diego County Truck Accident
After having crashed his truck close to Valley Center Road, a North County man who had been driving was pinned for hours inside his vehicle before he was spotted and rescued. The interesting twist was that by the time California Highway Patrol arrived to assist the man, they had found two open containers of vodka in the truck. However, it had been too long to determine whether or not to driver was drunk at the time of the crash or not.
The driver, who was indentified as Denis Gerdes, 49, of Vista, was in a Toyota Tundra on Saturday evening when he crashed, and spent the night pinned inside. The accident was not spotted until Sunday afternoon by a passerby. Verdes was apparently a little disoriented but overall uninjured by the time he was removed around 12:40 p.m. Sunday just below Valley Center Road. The story had been reported to Sgt Lewis Hall of the CHP to the North County Times. Gerdes had apparently called 911 on his own, but gave the wrong location. You can read more about this North San Diego County truck accident in this NBC San Diego story.
Although authorities are unable to determine if this specific accident was caused by being under the influence, open containers of alcohol are illegal, and point to that allegation. Do not let the decisions and mistakes of others harm you or involve you with deadly accidents in San Diego.
If you or anyone you know has been injured or killed in a San Diego truck accident, please contact San Diego DUI accident lawyer Ross Jurewitz and the San Diego injury attorneys at the Jurewitz Law Group at (619) 233-5020. You may also contact these San Diego accident lawyers online here.
