An accident that puzzled CHP officers and Morgan Hill Police has
been clarified, now that the driver involved decided to tell the
investigating CHP officer the truth, according to CHP Public
Information Officer Chris Armstrong.
An accident that puzzled CHP officers and Morgan Hill Police has been clarified, now that the driver involved decided to tell the investigating CHP officer the truth, according to CHP Public Information Officer Chris Armstrong.
Mark Hendrickson, 21, of Gilroy confessed to driving the car that was found on its roof off of Edmundson Avenue near Spring Avenue early on Sept. 14. What puzzled both the CHP and MHPD was that when the car was found, there was a pool of blood inside, but no one in or around the car.
“(Hendrickson) said he could not remember exactly what happened, but he did remember a jolt,” Armstrong said Friday. “After the collision, he walked to a friend’s house, and the friend helped him to get medical attention.”
The morning of the collision, an emergency room worker at Kaiser Santa Teresa Hospital in south San Jose called the MHPD to report a man “covered with blood” was seeking treatment, saying he’d been assaulted at a bar on Dunne Avenue and his car taken. He also told the worker he was left in a dumpster.
Hendrickson had abrasions on his forehead, Armstrong said.
Hendrickson told the investigating CHP officer he was scared after the accident, Armstrong added, and “alcohol was a factor.”
No charges were filed against Hendrickson, Armstrong said, “because he told the truth. If he had filed a false police report, we would have been forced to file charges.”
