A two-vehicle accident outside the San Benito County Fair on
Saturday seriously injured two motorcycle riders. And in a
subsequent wreck two hours later, a 21-year-old Hollister resident
who recently had left the fair was arrested on suspicion of drunken
driving when his car hit a pole and rolled over on Southside Road,
according to the California Highway Patrol.
A two-vehicle accident outside the San Benito County Fair on Saturday seriously injured two motorcycle riders. And in a subsequent wreck two hours later, a 21-year-old Hollister resident who recently had left the fair was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving when his car hit a pole and rolled over on Southside Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
At about 7:30 p.m., the driver of a 2006 Lincoln sedan, a 70-year-old Hollister woman, was leaving the main fairgrounds entrance and hit a 1998 Harley-Davidson Heritage carrying two people, a 56-year-old Hollister man and a 52-year-old Hollister woman. The two residents on the motorcycle were ejected and were transported to a San Jose hospital with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries at the time, said Officer Jamie Rios with the Gilroy-Hollister CHP branch.
The motorcycle driver had multiple lacerations and fractures in his left leg. The passenger had lacerations to the face and left arm. Both were airlifted for precautionary reasons due to potential head trauma, Rios said.
The driver of the Lincoln was uninjured, according to the CHP.
At 9:21 p.m. that night, CHP officers responded to the single-car accident on Southside Road west of Bolado Road, according to the agency.
The man, in an unidentified 2007 vehicle, left the road and collided with a wooden pole, continuing through a fence and rolling before coming to a rest in a dirt field, according to the CHP. He told officers he had been coming from the county fair, which ran Friday through Sunday at Bolado Park.
The man was transported to Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital with cuts and complaints of pain and was arrested for the suspected driving under the influence.
