[12-07-2022] San Bernardino County, CA – Multi-Vehicle Collision in Hesperia Kills One Person and Injures Another

One person was killed and another was injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Hesperia on Wednesday afternoon, December 07, 2022.

According to the San Bernardino County Fire Department, the crash involving three vehicles occurred around 2:44 p.m. on Mariposa Road and Eucalyptus Road.

Firefighters who responded to the site found a maroon Ford pickup truck heavily damaged, with a part of it impaled into a white box truck and a white KIA sedan off in the distance.

The male driver of the pickup had to be extricated but was still declared dead despite efforts to save his life. A female passenger in the same car was taken to a nearby hospital for sustaining minor injuries.

The truck driver was unharmed and there were no further details on the other driver. It remained unclear how exactly the crash happened.

A section of Mariposa Road, between Turko Avenue and Avenal Street, was closed off for the investigation.

Investigators from the Hesperia Police Department’s San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputies are looking into the collision.

Fatal Multi-Vehicle Accident Statistics

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that a vehicle collision occurs every minute in the United States. It is projected that 3,300 individuals perished as a result of vehicular mishaps in the Golden State in 2016. A significant percentage (around 94%) of these occurrences can be attributed to human error.

About one in ten Americans will lose their life in an automobile crash each year, according to the National Safety Council’s calculations. Directly caused by these events, 3,898 Californians have lost their lives, while an additional 2.7 million have been injured. The number of victims increased by 23.5% between 2013 and 2017.

A “multi-vehicle collision” is defined as an incident involving three or more motor vehicles. Up to six cars can be completely destroyed and many more can be damaged when two cars collide head-on.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2010, more than 13,000 people were killed in incidents involving two or more vehicles.

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