ONTARIO >> A San Bernardino police officer was killed early Thursday after his patrol unit was slammed into by a car driven by a man who police suspect was driving drunk.

Bryce Hanes, a 40-year-old Redlands resident, had just dropped off an inmate at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, when police said Hanes’ vehicle was broadsided by another motorist driving a dark blue 2008 Dodge Charger just after 2 a.m. at Etiwanda Avenue and Fourth Street in Ontario.

The impact left the patrol car pressed into a traffic light pole. A witness told investigating officers that the Charger’s driver ran a red light and collided into Hanes’ vehicle. The police officer had a green light, according to the witness.

The Charger’s driver, 27-year-old Archie Green III of Fontana, was hospitalized with minor injuries. When he’s released from the hospital, Green will be booked into county jail on suspicion of felony DUI causing death and vehicular manslaughter, according to Ontario police, who are investigating the crash.

• Photos: San Bernardino police officer killed in early morning crash

Later Thursday morning, a procession of police escorted Hanes’ casket, draped in an American flag, back to San Bernardino, where flags hung at half-staff at City Hall, and a department and hometown mourned.

“It’s with a great deal of sadness that we announce that we lost an officer overnight to a traffic collision,” said Jarrod Burguan, San Bernardino police chief.

Hanes is a 12-year veteran of the San Bernardino Police Department, with a wife and three children under the age of 12. Burguan described him as very well-liked, very committed to his job and a tremendous loss to the agency.

“He’s been an exemplary officer, completely dedicated to this city, this agency,” the chief said.

PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Hanes worked in patrol all 12 years of his service in San Bernardino and spent the majority of those years on the overnight shift. The crash Thursday occurred close to the start of his shift.

He is survived by his wife, Alice, and children Abigail, 12, Katie, 10, and Benjamin, 7, police said. He also has a brother in law enforcement, a San Bernardino police detective who recently retired from the department.

• Videos: Chief Jarrod Burguan talks about Officer Bryce Hanes | Scene of fatal crash | Officers arrive at hospital | Ontario Police Department details crash

Hanes graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1993 and was remembered by staff there as a good student who played on the varsity football team.

“He used to come in to my classroom during lunchtime and play chess,” recalled Clifford Corigliano Sr., the biology teacher at San Bernardino High School. “He was actually pretty good.”

Although Corigliano hadn’t seen Hanes since he graduated from high school, he said news of Hanes’ death hit him and other faculty hard.

“It’s a very sad thing to know that someone who you taught has died,” he said.

Students and staff will hold a moment of silence for Hanes during the school’s homecoming rally Friday morning.

LOSS RIPPLES ACROSS STATE

The officer’s death reverberated across the state, with dozens of agencies taking to social media offering their condolences to Hanes’ fellow officers and his family. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tweeted: “The men and women of #LAPD are mourning the death of @SanBernardinoPD Officer Hanes. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and the family!”

Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the Capitol flags to be flown at half-staff.

“Anne and I are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of Officer Hanes,” Brown said in a statement. “We offer our heartfelt condolences to Officer Hanes’ family, friends and co-workers at the San Bernardino Police Department. We join all Californians in mourning his loss and vow to always remember his selfless service and sacrifice on behalf of his community.”

San Bernardino Mayor R. Carey Davis attended a news conference Thursday morning and expressed his grief upon learning of Hanes’ death.

“I’m very saddened by the loss of one of our police officers,” Davis said. “I know Bryce was very well liked, loved, not only by the police department but beloved by his family.”

Davis later released a statement asking community members “not to forget the sacrifices made by our police department and by their families. I am grateful for his service and I ask that you please continue to keep Officer Hanes’ family and our SBPD family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Law enforcement officers from various agencies around the region went Thursday morning to Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, where Hanes was taken and later died.

San Bernardino had gone a decade and a half without a fatal on-duty crash involving one of its officers, officials said. The last one was in 2000.

Memorials with flowers were growing late Thursday at the San Bernardino Police Department and at the crash scene.

“I just want to tell him and his family that I am so appreciative of his duty to our county,” Corigliano said. “I want to thank anyone who puts that uniform on every day. It’s so sad to have it end this way. I send to his family my condolences.”

Anyone who may have witnessed or who has information about the collision can contact Ontario Police Department Traffic Officer Fred Ruiz at 909-395-2001, Ext. 4687, or 909-986-6711.

ONTARIO >> A San Bernardino police officer was killed early Thursday after his patrol unit was slammed into by a car driven by a man who police suspect was driving drunk.

Bryce Hanes, a 40-year-old Redlands resident, had just dropped off an inmate at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, when police said Hanes’ vehicle was broadsided by another motorist driving a dark blue 2008 Dodge Charger just after 2 a.m. at Etiwanda Avenue and Fourth Street in Ontario.

The impact left the patrol car pressed into a traffic light pole. A witness told investigating officers that the Charger’s driver ran a red light and collided into Hanes’ vehicle. The police officer had a green light, according to the witness.

The Charger’s driver, 27-year-old Archie Green III of Fontana, was hospitalized with minor injuries. When he’s released from the hospital, Green will be booked into county jail on suspicion of felony DUI causing death and vehicular manslaughter, according to Ontario police, who are investigating the crash.

• Photos: San Bernardino police officer killed in early morning crash

Later Thursday morning, a procession of police escorted Hanes’ casket, draped in an American flag, back to San Bernardino, where flags hung at half-staff at City Hall, and a department and hometown mourned.

“It’s with a great deal of sadness that we announce that we lost an officer overnight to a traffic collision,” said Jarrod Burguan, San Bernardino police chief.

Hanes is a 12-year veteran of the San Bernardino Police Department, with a wife and three children under the age of 12. Burguan described him as very well-liked, very committed to his job and a tremendous loss to the agency.

“He’s been an exemplary officer, completely dedicated to this city, this agency,” the chief said.

PART OF THE COMMUNITY

Hanes worked in patrol all 12 years of his service in San Bernardino and spent the majority of those years on the overnight shift. The crash Thursday occurred close to the start of his shift.

He is survived by his wife, Alice, and children Abigail, 12, Katie, 10, and Benjamin, 7, police said. He also has a brother in law enforcement, a San Bernardino police detective who recently retired from the department.

• Videos: Chief Jarrod Burguan talks about Officer Bryce Hanes | Scene of fatal crash | Officers arrive at hospital | Ontario Police Department details crash

Hanes graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1993 and was remembered by staff there as a good student who played on the varsity football team.

“He used to come in to my classroom during lunchtime and play chess,” recalled Clifford Corigliano Sr., the biology teacher at San Bernardino High School. “He was actually pretty good.”

Although Corigliano hadn’t seen Hanes since he graduated from high school, he said news of Hanes’ death hit him and other faculty hard.

“It’s a very sad thing to know that someone who you taught has died,” he said.

Students and staff will hold a moment of silence for Hanes during the school’s homecoming rally Friday morning.

LOSS RIPPLES ACROSS STATE

The officer’s death reverberated across the state, with dozens of agencies taking to social media offering their condolences to Hanes’ fellow officers and his family. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tweeted: “The men and women of #LAPD are mourning the death of @SanBernardinoPD Officer Hanes. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and the family!”

Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the Capitol flags to be flown at half-staff.

“Anne and I are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of Officer Hanes,” Brown said in a statement. “We offer our heartfelt condolences to Officer Hanes’ family, friends and co-workers at the San Bernardino Police Department. We join all Californians in mourning his loss and vow to always remember his selfless service and sacrifice on behalf of his community.”

San Bernardino Mayor R. Carey Davis attended a news conference Thursday morning and expressed his grief upon learning of Hanes’ death.

“I’m very saddened by the loss of one of our police officers,” Davis said. “I know Bryce was very well liked, loved, not only by the police department but beloved by his family.”

Davis later released a statement asking community members “not to forget the sacrifices made by our police department and by their families. I am grateful for his service and I ask that you please continue to keep Officer Hanes’ family and our SBPD family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Law enforcement officers from various agencies around the region went Thursday morning to Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, where Hanes was taken and later died.

San Bernardino had gone a decade and a half without a fatal on-duty crash involving one of its officers, officials said. The last one was in 2000.

Memorials with flowers were growing late Thursday at the San Bernardino Police Department and at the crash scene.

“I just want to tell him and his family that I am so appreciative of his duty to our county,” Corigliano said. “I want to thank anyone who puts that uniform on every day. It’s so sad to have it end this way. I send to his family my condolences.”

Anyone who may have witnessed or who has information about the collision can contact Ontario Police Department Traffic Officer Fred Ruiz at 909-395-2001, Ext. 4687, or 909-986-6711.

POMONA >> A blue-green bus with the words Covered California and messages urging people to sign up for health insurance rolled into Ontario and Pomona Tuesday as part of a 48 city, 10 day tour across the state to highlight organizations making an effort to sign up people for health coverage.

In Pomona, the Covered California bus carrying Peter Lee, executive director of the state’s marketplace for the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, stopped at the Pomona Community Health Center at the Village at Indian Hill and at Ortiz and Associates near the southeast corner of Garey Avenue and Third Street in downtown Pomona.

“This one insurance agency over the last two years has (enrolled) more than 5,000 people,” Lee said of Ortiz and Associates.

The company’s personnel have done an impressive job, but there are many people in Pomona who don’t have insurance and qualify for financial assistance that will help them purchase insurance or qualify for Medi-Cal coverage at low cost or no cost, he said.

“Tens of thousands of people in Pomona are eligible for subsidies,” Lee said.

People have heard about Obamacare, he said, “but they don’t believe it’s affordable to them.”

Having health insurance means a person will not have to shoulder a heavy financial burden if they have a serious medical problem, he said adding that “if something bad happens you’re going to get access to (the) best hospitals.”

The bus tour also stopped at the Pomona Community Health Center because it offers more than quality health care services, Lee said.

Personnel at the center are prepared to help patients sign up for health insurance, he said.

Alicia Ortiz, who partners with her husband in the family-owned Ortiz and Associates, said the secret to their success in enrolling people is customer service.

“Enrollment is just signing them up. The real job is answering their questions,” she said.

People have questions — ranging from why their insurance identification cards haven’t arrived to why their doctor won’t take their insurance — and they need someone who can help them.

“People need to be able to reach out to someone,” Ortiz said.

At the Pomona Community Health Center, “we never turn anybody away. We take care of everyone,” said Ellen Silver, chief executive officer.

In addition to providing quality health services, personnel work with patients to find out if they qualify for Medi-Cal or another insurance plan and help them find a plan that meets their health and financial situation, she said.

The open enrollment period continues through Jan. 31. For information about Covered California, visit coveredca.com.

POMONA >> A blue-green bus with the words Covered California and messages urging people to sign up for health insurance rolled into Ontario and Pomona Tuesday as part of a 48 city, 10 day tour across the state to highlight organizations making an effort to sign up people for health coverage.

In Pomona, the Covered California bus carrying Peter Lee, executive director of the state’s marketplace for the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, stopped at the Pomona Community Health Center at the Village at Indian Hill and at Ortiz and Associates near the southeast corner of Garey Avenue and Third Street in downtown Pomona.

“This one insurance agency over the last two years has (enrolled) more than 5,000 people,” Lee said of Ortiz and Associates.

The company’s personnel have done an impressive job, but there are many people in Pomona who don’t have insurance and qualify for financial assistance that will help them purchase insurance or qualify for Medi-Cal coverage at low cost or no cost, he said.

“Tens of thousands of people in Pomona are eligible for subsidies,” Lee said.

People have heard about Obamacare, he said, “but they don’t believe it’s affordable to them.”

Having health insurance means a person will not have to shoulder a heavy financial burden if they have a serious medical problem, he said adding that “if something bad happens you’re going to get access to (the) best hospitals.”

The bus tour also stopped at the Pomona Community Health Center because it offers more than quality health care services, Lee said.

Personnel at the center are prepared to help patients sign up for health insurance, he said.

Alicia Ortiz, who partners with her husband in the family-owned Ortiz and Associates, said the secret to their success in enrolling people is customer service.

“Enrollment is just signing them up. The real job is answering their questions,” she said.

People have questions — ranging from why their insurance identification cards haven’t arrived to why their doctor won’t take their insurance — and they need someone who can help them.

“People need to be able to reach out to someone,” Ortiz said.

At the Pomona Community Health Center, “we never turn anybody away. We take care of everyone,” said Ellen Silver, chief executive officer.

In addition to providing quality health services, personnel work with patients to find out if they qualify for Medi-Cal or another insurance plan and help them find a plan that meets their health and financial situation, she said.

The open enrollment period continues through Jan. 31. For information about Covered California, visit coveredca.com.

POMONA >> A 22-year-old resident here was arrested for DUI following a one-vehicle collision with a power pole at about 4:50 a.m. Saturday.

Officers responded to a traffic collision where a vehicle struck the Edison pole at Holt Avenue and Towne Avenue. As a result, the southbound lanes of Towne Avenue will be closed from Pasadena Street to Holt Avenue, so repairs can be completed, Pomona police said.

The driver of the vehicle, Richard Garcia, was arrested on a DUI charge, police said.

Repairs were ongoing well into the afternoon Saturday.

POMONA >> A 22-year-old resident here was arrested for DUI following a one-vehicle collision with a power pole at about 4:50 a.m. Saturday.

Officers responded to a traffic collision where a vehicle struck the Edison pole at Holt Avenue and Towne Avenue. As a result, the southbound lanes of Towne Avenue will be closed from Pasadena Street to Holt Avenue, so repairs can be completed, Pomona police said.

The driver of the vehicle, Richard Garcia, was arrested on a DUI charge, police said.

Repairs were ongoing well into the afternoon Saturday.

POMONA >> An unidentified motorcyclist was airlifted to an area hospital after a Saturday afternoon collision with an automobile, Pomona police department officials said.

The victim is listed in critical condition, police said.

The accident occurred in the area of Phillips Ranch Road and Scenic Ridge Drive.

The accident is under investigation, police say.

Anyone with information about the accident, which occurred about 12.50 p.m., is asked to contact the Pomona Police Department at 909-620-2081.

POMONA >> An unidentified motorcyclist was airlifted to an area hospital after a Saturday afternoon collision with an automobile, Pomona police department officials said.

The victim is listed in critical condition, police said.

The accident occurred in the area of Phillips Ranch Road and Scenic Ridge Drive.

The accident is under investigation, police say.

Anyone with information about the accident, which occurred about 12.50 p.m., is asked to contact the Pomona Police Department at 909-620-2081.

At the Pomona Police Department, they were watching a televised slow-speed pursuit by the CHP through Pomona one recent morning when the suspect suddenly headed west on Mission Boulevard toward the police station, pulling into the parking lot.

Personnel who’d either been watching on TV or through the windows bolted for the lobby. Four officers were waiting there already, guns drawn.

“He ran into the lobby, ran into them and surrendered,” Deputy Chief Mike Olivieri told me later. “I don’t know what he would have done if they hadn’t been there.”

Maybe he’d have politely asked for the officer in charge and taken a seat. But officers arrested him at gunpoint, cuffed him and handed him over to the arriving CHP, who’d chased him from Rancho Cucamonga for speeding.

Once on his own turf, the Pomona man had led the CHP around at a leisurely pace, even stopping at red lights, before making up his mind to turn himself in — to his friendly hometown police. Who says there’s no loyalty anymore?

“We must be a new, kinder, gentler Pomona Police Department,” Olivieri observed, “for the bad guy to run to us.”

Culture Corner

• Two of Upland’s better restaurants have closed. Le Bistro, the valley’s only French restaurant, said au revoir after four years. And Seventh Heaven Cafe closed after a year in business as the valley’s only wood-fired pizzeria, although its owners say they’ll sell desserts and other items through Upland’s Rustic Loaf bakery. (Claremont’s The Spot Cafe has already expanded into the Seventh Heaven space.)

• The producer of “The Martian,” Aditya Sood, is a 1997 alumnus of Pomona College. It’s not the only recent science fiction success to come from a Pomona College product: 2014’s “Interstellar” arrived thanks to producer Lynda Obst, who graduated in 1972.

• “The Armor of Light,” a documentary about a minister who challenges fellow evangelicals on their pro-gun beliefs, is screening at only three theaters in the Greater L.A. area: the Hollywood ArcLight, the Pasadena Laemmle and the Ontario AMC 30.

Running scared

Last weekend I was buying gas in Claremont when I noticed the driver who’d pulled in behind me was pumping gas while his engine was idling. This seemed like a terrible idea, but I wasn’t confident enough about the science to confront him, instead wrapping up quickly, driving away and checking my rearview mirror occasionally for a huge fireball.

I asked on Twitter if the activity was dangerous or not. Follower J.P. Myers replied with a Google image search for the phrase “gas pump fire.” Ulp.

More definitively, Mark Hartwig, who is merely the San Bernardino County fire chief, replied: “It is dangerous. The gas vapors ‘seek’ an ignition source. A running engine provides source of ignition in ideal conditions.”

Who says social media isn’t useful?

Next time I’ll confront the driver — or drive away faster.

Upstart Upland

Regarding my Oct. 4 column about Claremont’s Bridges Hall of Music, reader Marian Nichols brought to my attention that its designer, Myron Hunt — also the architect of the Rose Bowl, Huntington Library, Ambassador Hotel and other famed structures — was responsible for several structures in her town.

Hunt designed a home at 1790 N. Euclid Ave. in 1910, redesigned a stone barn at 16th Street and San Antonio Avenue into a Spanish Colonial Revival house in 1917 and designed San Antonio Hospital in 1924, Nichols related.

“That makes three Myron Hunt beauties for little old Upland, and puts us right up there in a league with Pasadena,” Nichols reported.

I always thought Upland was in a league of its own.

Online only

On my blog last week: 1960s-’70s correspondence from Jack Smith is found tucked inside my used bookstore purchase of his book “The Big Orange”; a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby song from 1947’s “The Road to Rio” contains a line about Cucamonga; photos of the Gateway Arch are presented, including one of yours truly there at age 4; and we nosh and sip at N7 Creamery, a coffeehouse, ice cream shop and more in Rancho Cucamonga. Don’t be L7: Visit insidesocal.com/davidallen.

Strands of fate

At Vince’s Spaghetti in Ontario, celebrating its 70th year in business, people have been dropping tickets into a giant receptacle for weeks, hoping to win one of the grand prizes: a cruise for two along the Mexican Riviera. Two cruises will be awarded.

The prize drawings are scheduled for 6 p.m. Sunday, and yours truly has been tapped to do the honors. Stop by for dinner and watch. (You can also buy my book, if so inclined.)

“We probably have given out 25,000 tickets,” manager Ken Dodge told me Friday. “We’re still taking more, right up until the drawing.”

Just for the record: There’s no chance of my accidentally drawing my own name. I forgot to enter.

David Allen cruises to defeat Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Contact david.allen@langnews.com or 909-483-9339, like davidallencolumnist on Facebook and follow @davidallen909 on Twitter.