Father Of Three Seriously Injured During Crash Arrested

A Santa Rosa father was arrested Tuesday after an investigation into a crash that seriously injured his three sons in June, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department.

Timothy Norman, 45, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs causing injury and three counts of felony child endangerment with injury.

Police arrested Norman after toxicology results “confirmed the presence of drugs in the driver’s system at the time of the collision,” police said.

The accident happened on June 2. The Santa Rosa Police Department received multiple 911 calls at 2:37 p.m. reporting a collision between a red Honda Odyssey minivan and a white Ford Ranger pickup near West Third Street and Arboleda Drive in Santa Rosa.

Norman was driving his three sons — ages 5, 11, and 12 — in a red Honda Odyssey minivan on West Third Street.

Investigators said Norman tried to pass a City of Santa Rosa white Ford Ranger pickup truck driven by a city employee. He tried to pass the truck on the left as lanes merged into one, striking the truck and then two trees in the median.

The children and Norman sustained major injuries in the collision and were rushed to a trauma center in critical condition. The city employee was uninjured in the incident.