[12-20-2022] Santa Barbara County, CA – One Person Hospitalized After Two-Vehicle Collision near Los Alamos

Authorities said one person was hospitalized following a two-vehicle collision near Los Alamos in Santa Barbara County on Tuesday evening, December 20, 2022.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the crash occurred just before 8:00 p.m. in the highway’s southbound lanes, roughly a quarter mile south of Alisos Canyon Road.

Responders from the Santa Barbara County Fire Department arrived at the scene and found one of the cars on its roof on the side of the road and the other in the center median.

One person was injured and transported to Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria by AMR ambulance. There was no information about their identity or condition, nor with the other driver.

The CHP was looking into the cause of the collision.

Two-Vehicle Accident Statistics

One person is killed and another is injured in an automobile accident every minute in the United States. Every year, two million children and teenagers under the age of twenty-five die, while another ten million are injured.

As many as 10,000 people will have lost their lives in traffic accidents in the Golden State by the year 2050, according to projections made by government experts.

The number of people killed in car accidents in the state increased by 23.5% in the past year. In 2017, 3,898 persons were killed in motor vehicle collisions, while another 278,823 were injured. The fatality rate on public transportation systems that year was 9 per 100,000 riders.

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