Submitted photoVehicles in the accident Thursday in which Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel was injured.

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel was injured Thursday evening in a two-vehicle accident near downtown Bend, Hummel said Friday.

Hummel spoke to The Bulletin by phone from St. Charles Bend, where he was hospitalized with a broken pelvis, two broken ribs and a possible concussion. He said he had been driving his Saab 9-3 wagon home at about 6:30 p.m. when he crossed the intersection of Portland Avenue and NW 11th Street and was struck on his vehicle’s driver side by another vehicle.

“Right when I crossed (the intersection), I see out of the corner of my left eye a bright flash; I knew it was a white car — it slammed into my driver’s-side door and drove me like 40 feet,” he said. “The door was smashed in and had me pinned between the door and the center console.”

The Bend Police Department on Friday confirmed the incident occurred, but further details weren’t immediately available.

Hummel said he expected to be released from the hospital Friday night or Saturday.

The first person on the scene was a bystander who held his hand and told him to hold on until police and emergency personnel arrived, Hummel said. Then EMTs were able to lift him out of his vehicle without having to use the jaws of life, and he was taken to St. Charles Bend by ambulance.

Hummel said it appeared a family with children was in the other vehicle — a white Suburban, he said — and that the woman was transported to the hospital.

As for the DA’s caseload, Hummel said he hopes to be back at work by Tuesday if doctors give him the OK. Meanwhile, Hummel said he’s been in touch with his office.

“I just had a phone call with my management team and we got things straight,” he said. “We’re starting a three-day weekend so that gives me a little time.”

The DA said an update will be delayed until next week that was expected Friday on the deadly force case in Redmond, when a Redmond police vehicle on Aug. 18 struck and critically injured a man waving a handgun in front of St. Charles Redmond. The man who was struck by the police vehicle, 63-year-old Michael Gaskill, died of his injuries two days later.

“My new plan is to dig into that file on Tuesday and issue a press release then,” he said.

Regarding future work, Hummel said mobility is going to be the biggest issue. He said doctors have told him he will need to use a walker to get around, which includes prosecuting a case during a jury trial this month.

“I think I’ll be doing (the case) with a walker,” he said.