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September 3, 2010
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Main Causeway once more site of fatal golf cart accident A 49-year-old male sustained a fatal head injury in a rollover golf cart accident on the Main Causeway Wednesday night, September 1, at 9:41 p.m. Riverside Sheriffs report that officers from the Canyon Lake Police Department were dispatched to the scene and the Sheriff's Station Traffic Reconstruction Team responded and assumed the investigation. The preliminary investigation revealed the golf cart was traveling northbound on Canyon Lake Drive South. The driver, identified by coroners as Keith Dale Hammonds, apparently lost control of the golf cart and was partially ejected when it rolled over. The driver was transported to Inland Valley Hospital where he was pronounced deceased as a result of the traffic collision. The coroner listed Mr. Hammond's residence as La Mirada; however, the Hammonds do have a listing in the Canyon Lake Residential Directory and Keith's daughter, Nicole Hammonds, was listed as a winner in the Jr. Golf Clinic in 2006 and 2008. City Councilman Jordan Ehrenkranz, whose home on Canyon Lake Dr. South overlooks the causeway, was returning home some time after the Council meeting and says he was told at the Main Gate traffic was not being allowed through on Canyon Lake Dr. South, past Village Way Dr. Since he lived only a few houses beyond that intersection, he was given permission to proceed. Jordan says when he arrived home, he walked partway to the scene to see what happened and noticed the lifted, four-seat golf cart without a roof lying on its side on the downward slope of the northbound side of the causeway. The driver had already been taken to the hospital. While Jordan was standing with police, he heard them receive a call from the hospital confirming the driver had died. Records indicate Mr. Hammonds was pronounced deceased at 10:24 p.m. Jordan says the Traffic Reconstruction Team had floodlights on the scene until about 3 a.m. Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to call Deputy Gasparini at the Perris Sheriff Station at 210-1000.
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