At approximately 12:02 a.m. on July 1, 2026, Cal Fire/Riverside County firefighters, Moreno Valley Fire personnel, and California Highway Patrol officers responded to a serious traffic collision on Gilman Springs Road just north of Quail Ranch Road, east of Moreno Valley.
Emergency crews arrived to find a heavily damaged vehicle that had left the roadway, traveled up an embankment, and crashed into a utility pole with enough force to shear it off.
The driver was trapped inside the wreckage, prompting firefighters to perform an extensive extrication before the patient could be freed…