[03-20-2023] Orange County, CA – One Person Killed, Two Injured After Two-Vehicle Head-On Crash in Brea

One person was killed while two others were injured following a two-vehicle head-on collision in Brea on Monday night, March 20, 2023.

According to the Brea Police Department, the fatal crash occurred at about 8:01 p.m. on Carbon Canyon Road, just east of Olinda Village.

The responding officers and emergency personnel arrived at the scene and located the driver of one of the vehicles involved dead at the site.

The other vehicle’s driver and passenger were rushed to the hospital for sustaining non-life-threatening injuries. No updates on their conditions were available.

The circumstances that led to the crash remain under investigation. It is currently unknown whether intoxication or speeding played a role.

Fatal Two-Vehicle Accident Statistics

Automobile accidents continue to be the leading cause of accidental injury and death in the United States. Worldwide, roughly two million lives are lost and ten million people are injured yearly because of automobile accidents.

The National Safety Council reported an 8.3 percent rise in traffic fatalities in the United States in 2020. For the last three years, numbers have been on the decline. Over the course of 2019, there have been 39,107 fatalities in automobile accidents across the country. In 2020, there have been 42,338 fatalities.

It is reported that 3,847 persons lost their lives in automobile accidents in California in 2020. 1,587 deaths (or 41% of the total) resulted from multi-vehicle accidents.

Single-vehicle accidents accounted for 59%, or 2,260, of the total fatalities.

A total of 77% of injuries, 71% of accidents resulting in injuries, and 72% of accidents overall occurred in collisions involving two or more cars. Around 8,000 persons were killed or injured in angle collisions in 2020.

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