[02-06-2023] Riverside County, CA – Two-Vehicle Crash in Hemet Kills One, Injures Two Others

7One person was killed and two others were hospitalized in unknown conditions following a two-vehicle head-on collision involving a wrong-way crash in Hemet on Monday afternoon, February 06, 2023.

According to the Hemet Police Department, the fatal crash occurred shortly before 3:41 p.m. at the intersection of Cawston Avenue and Devonshire Avenue in a residential area in the city.

Responders arrived at the scene to discover that a gray Toyota Prius and a black Ford Escape had collided, setting the Prius on fire. The initial investigation revealed that the Prius traveling north in the northbound lanes on Cawston switched to the southbound lane and directly into the Ford.

The fire was put out by Hemet firefighters and three people were rescued. The male driver of the Prius and the male driver and female passenger of the Ford all sustained injuries and were sent to the hospital. The female passenger later passed away, and the current state of the other occupants remained unknown.

The authorities released no further details on the crash and the identities of the people involved. As further investigation continued, evidence at the scene showed that the speed of the Prius very likely played a role in the crash.

Fatal Two-Vehicle Accident Statistics

In 2020, it was reported that there were 3,847 fatalities due to traffic accidents in California. There were 2,260 people killed in single-car incidents (representing 59% of total fatalities) and 1,587 killed in accidents involving two or more vehicles (41%). Of the total number of fatalities, 1,378 were associated with cars (36%), 674 with pickups and SUVs (18%), 25 with heavy trucks (1%), 539 with motorcycles (14%), 986 with foot traffic (26%), and 129 with bicycles (3%).

According to a second study, in 2020, 41% of all road deaths nationwide included an accident involving two or more vehicles. More than three-quarters of all injuries (77%), most wrecks that led to injuries (71%), and almost three-quarters of all accidents (72%) occurred in multi-vehicle collisions, although only about half of all occurrences involved such cases. Angle collisions were responsible for the deaths or injuries of 8,000 people.

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