Many times these stories do not have happy endings. So it is a relief when emergency responders can express a little humor—after it is confirmed that everyone is okay.

Reported by Gary Meyer, TME

The report came in on Monday, April 18 at 2:58 p.m. California Highway Patrol got the dispatch for “a vehicle into an embankment” on Frazier Mountain Park Road, about a mile west of Monterey Trail. It was a white Range Rover. The report said the driver fled the scene, carrying a bottle of champagne.

Kern County Sheriff’s Sgt.Dustin Downey and a deputy were the first law enforcement to arrive. Kern County firefighters were…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

Top: A CHP officer walks toward the cliff that this Range Rover (above) sailed over to land on its nose on the roadway below

Spirits were high with relief as 11 first responders talked with Arthur Trump (center) who survived his flight from West End to Frazier Mountain Park Road with a bottle of champagne and himself emerging intact. He was cited for DUI.

CHP Sgt.Justin Olson

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This is part of the April 22, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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