[04-09-2023] Riverside County, CA – One Person Severely Injured in Two-Vehicle Crash near Indio

One person was severely injured following a two-vehicle collision in Riverside County on Sunday evening, April 9, 2023.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the crash occurred around 5:16 p.m. on Interstate 10 at Chiriaco Summit, east of Indio.

CHP reported that the collision involved a U-Haul towed away from the site and a black Chevrolet Suburban with major front-end damage.

The number of people involved is currently unknown, but at least one person was reported to have sustained severe wounds.

The responding medics attended to them, but their current state remains unknown.

There was no additional information given about this collision as the investigation continued.

Two-Vehicle Accident Statistics

Vehicle collisions are a primary cause of the thousands of annual unintentional deaths and injuries in the United States. Every year, automobile accidents claim two million lives and harm ten million people around the world.

The National Safety Council reported an 8.3 percent increase in highway fatalities in 2020. There has been a slow but steady decline over the past three years prior to that increase. The number of Americans killed in automobile accidents rose to 39,107 in 2019. In 2020, though, that number jumped to 42,338.

In 2020, 3,847 persons were killed in automobile accidents in California. Nearly half of the fatalities (1,587 people, or 41%) were caused by multiple-vehicle collisions. About 2,260 persons were killed in automobile accidents, which accounts for 59% of all traffic fatalities.

Two-vehicle incidents accounted for the vast majority of all crashes (77%), including those that resulted in casualties (71%), and all accidents overall. Angle collisions caused over 8,000 fatalities and injuries in 2020.

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