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A group of friends from Pebble Beach were on a carefree wagon ride in beautiful Carmel Valley, rolling from winery to winery last weekend. One friend was recording the fun with his phone when an orange truck driving behind them started beeping. The truck driver appeared angry -- he hung his head out the window and made obscene gestures at the slow-moving wagon. The wagon was being pulled by tractor driver "Tractor Pete" Azevedo, a familiar face around town. Suddenly, the orange truck accelerated and rammed into the wagon. The shocked wine tasters screamed, and one woman tumbled out onto Carmel Valley Road. "Oh my god! Oh my god!" one wagon passenger screamed. Video of the bizarre crash was uploaded onto YouTube. -- VIDEO: Watch the truck vs. wagon crash here Drivers stopped on the busy road to prevent running over the woman. Wagon passengers ran to help her, and confronted the truck driver with confused outrage. "Are you out of your f***ing mind?" one man tells the truck driver. "Why did you do that? Are you drunk? I'm calling 911." California Highway Patrol officers arrested the truck driver, 36-year-old Jeff Moser, on felony charges of DUI causing injury and assault with a deadly weapon. The woman who fell out of the wagon suffered moderate injuries and was treated at a hospital. The crash became ever more bizarre when KSBW spoke with Azevedo on Friday. Azevedo said he is friends with Moser, and he believes it was all an accident and a joke. Azevedo said the truck driver was just trying to tap the back of the wagon to give the group a scare. Moser had recently bought the orange Ford F150 truck, and was not familiar with driving it. The victim and her husband declined to comment to KSBW Friday. Moser worked as a tasting room manager for local wineries. A wine trolley owner, Gary Munsinger, also believes the crash was an accident. "(Moser) was abusing substance to the point where he was a little out of his mind. But in reality, it was meant as a joke," Munsinger said. Monterey County District Attorney prosecutors did not find the incident funny. They are charging Moser with three felonies.