2 Survive 75-Foot Tumble in Truck
A pickup truck tumbled down the side of a 75-foot-high Santa Ana River bluff early Thursday, but its two occupants walked away from the smashed vehicle.
Milton Leland Prang, 27, of Norco had been driving west on River Drive near Corona Avenue when his truck drifted onto the dirt shoulder and then tumbled down the bluff to the riverbed, said Deputy Debra Wilson, spokeswoman for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
“He just wasn’t paying very close attention,” she said.
Prang and his passenger, Greta Augenfeld, 19, also of Norco, walked from the accident scene to their Corona Avenue house to summon help, said Norco Fire Engineer Robert Kramer.
Prang declined medical treatment, Kramer said, but Augenfeld was admitted to Riverside General Hospital with a cut on the back of her head and a possible neck injury.
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