[09-18-2022] Los Angeles County, CA – Two-Vehicle Crash Results in Pregnant Woman, Child Critically Injured Arleta

A two-vehicle collision sent a pregnant woman and young child to the hospital in Arleta Sunday night, September 18, 2022.

According to the Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey, the two-vehicle collision occurred just before 9:00 p.m. at 13952 W. Terra Bella Street.

According to Humphrey, the child was thrown from the vehicle after it was rear-ended by a Toyota Camry attempting to make a U-turn. The accident occurred when the Camry collided head-on with the BMW sedan.

It was not clear whether the child was secured in a car seat with a buckle. Both were taken to the hospital, where their conditions deteriorated rapidly.

However, which driver was at fault in the accident was not made clear.

The investigators are still trying to determine what caused the collision.

Two-Vehicle Crash Statistics

Car accidents are the most common cause of injury in the United States. Approximately two million people are injured or die in automobile collisions every year.

A car accident occurs in the United States every sixty seconds on average. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, California had more than 3,300 car accidents in 2012.

In the United States, 11% of deaths are caused by car accidents, according to the National Safety Council. In 2019, 276,823 people were injured, and 3,898 people died due to car accidents in California. Over the past three years, traffic accidents have increased by 23.5%.

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LA had an estimated 7.8 million residents in 2020, despite the COVID outbreak. Two hundred eighty-nine people were killed in 2020 traffic accidents, according to Los Angeles Police Department data.

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