[12-25-2022] San Bernardino County, CA – Two-Vehicle Crash Kills Driver and Hospitalizes Deputy in Oro Grande

A driver was killed and a deputy was hospitalized following a two-vehicle collision in Oro Grande, San Bernardino County, on Christmas night, Sunday, December 25, 2022.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the fatal crash occurred shortly before 9:18 p.m. at the National Trails Highway and Hibiscus Street intersection.

Responders arrived at the scene and discovered a severely damaged Chevy Impala and a patrol vehicle of a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy.

The Impala was entirely engulfed in flames off the road, and it took some time for the responders to locate the driver, who was ejected from the car and was declared dead on the spot.

The deputy was found unconscious in their patrol car and was airlifted via an H82 helicopter to a trauma center. Their current condition remains unknown.

No other information was immediately available, and the cause of the crash was being investigated by the authorities.

Fatal Two-Vehicle Accident Statistics

At least one person is killed and another is injured in an automobile accident every minute in the United States. There are two million annual deaths among children and young adults under the age of twenty-four.

There could be as many as 10,000 people killed in road accidents in California by 2050, according to authorities and experts’ estimates.

The number of people killed in vehicle collisions across the state increased by 23.5% in 2016. Three thousand eight hundred ninety-eight individuals lost their lives and an additional two hundred seventy-eight hundred twenty-three were injured as a result of car accidents in 2017. For every 100,000 people who rode public transportation that year, nine perished.

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