[02-20-2023] Kern County, CA – Solo Rollover Crash near Mettler Killed Driver, Hospitalized Passenger

A woman was killed while a man was hospitalized following a solo high-speed rollover crash near Mettler in Kern County early Monday morning, February 20, 2023.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the fatal solo-vehicle crash occurred shortly before 2:30 a.m. on northbound Highway 99, north of State Route 166.

The woman was reportedly speeding north on Highway 99 in her 2003 Nissan Sentra when she unsafely turned right and veered off the road. Upon rolling over, the Nissan landed on its roof on the roadway’s right shoulder.

The female driver sustained major injuries after not wearing a seatbelt. She was pronounced dead at the spot by the responders. Her 38-year-old male passenger, also unrestrained, was sent to Kern Medical with minor wounds.

No further details, including the occupants’ identities, were immediately available. Authorities are looking into whether drinking or drugs played a role in the collision.

Fatal Single-Vehicle Accident Statistics

Automobile accidents are the leading cause of accidental death and serious injury in the United States. Every year, traffic-related incidents cause over two million deaths and ten million injuries worldwide.

More people died in car crashes in 2020 due to unsafe behaviors like speeding, drinking and driving, and not wearing a seat belt, reported the National Safety Council. Death rates had been declining for three years prior to that year’s 8.3 percent increase. Deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the United States increased to 42,338 in 2020 from 39,107 in 2019.

In 2020, it was estimated that 3,847 people in California were killed in automobile accidents. More than half of the fatalities (2,260 or 59%) resulted from accidents involving only one vehicle, while nearly half were caused by collisions involving two or more vehicles (1,587 or 41%).

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