At least one person is dead after a crash in Ohio’s Adams County on July 24, it was reported.
The truck was hit head-on by the Honda, which swerved to pass a parked car.
Due to the incident, the truck reportedly drove down an embankment and hit another oncoming vehicle. The truck driver died in the crash.
Two people in the Honda was hospitalized in critical condition while two others were hospitalized, highway patrol officials said.
A photo published by the news outlet showed the semi in thick brush on what appears to be the downward slope of a hill.
Sheriff’s Deputy Dead in Florida Crash
A Florida sheriff’s department confirmed that one of its deputies was killed in a severe car crash as he was investigating a domestic dispute over the weekend.The deputy, who was not identified by local media outlets or the sheriff’s department, was killed after the driver of a gray Toyota pickup truck collided with his patrol vehicle at around 3 a.m. in Broward County.
“This is a devastating time for all of us,” Coleman-Wright said.
Crash Deaths in the United States
Tens of thousands of people are killed and millions injured each year from motor vehicle crashes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC says these deaths cost more than $380 million in direct medical costs.The major risk factors for crash deaths in the United States are not using seat belts, car seats, and booster seats (factors in over 9,500 crash deaths); drunk driving (a factor in more than 10,000 crash deaths); and speeding (contributing to more than 9,500 crash deaths).
These further break down as follows: the most common are unintentional poisoning deaths (58,335), followed by motor vehicle traffic deaths (40,327), and unintentional fall deaths in third place (34,673).
The 10 leading causes accounted for 74 percent of all deaths in the United States in 2017.