Recent Santa Ana, CA Accident News

California accounts for a sizeable portion of the total fatal crashes across the United States. Experts opine that the leading cause of these fatal crashes must be attributed to speeding and negligent driving, including driving while impaired and distracted driving.

The California Highway Patrol has released a report of the accidents that have occurred in the state of California over 2022. They have reported that there were a total of 216,366 accidents that occurred out of which 3,854 resulted in fatalities and 165,978 of them resulted in people getting injured. We can compare these numbers to the same of the previous year and come to the following conclusions – there was a 6.5% decrease in the total number of accidents and a decrease of 5.2% in the number of fatalities while the injury accidents saw a decrease of 7.3%. 

The officials at the California Highway Patrol have also revealed a breakdown in the number of fatalities according to the causes. Out of the 3,854 fatalities:

• 1,998 were the drivers of the vehicles involved in the accidents 
• 723 were passengers 
• 482 were pedestrians
• 406 were motorcyclists
• The remaining 245 were classified as “other” (this includes bicyclists, etc.)

They have also reported that the majority of the accidents occurred on rural roads while the rest occurred on urban roads. The causes of these accidents were mainly alcohol and speed. The officials have reported that alcohol was a contributing factor in 38% of the fatal accidents while speeding was a factor in 29% of the accidents. 

The injury accidents have also been broken down and reported. Out of the 165,978 injury accidents:

• 95,609 were the drivers.
• 29,543 were passengers
• 23,116 were pedestrians 
• 14,665 were motorcyclists 
• The remaining 3,045 were classified as “other” (this includes bicyclists, etc.)

The majority of these accidents (58%) occurred on urban roads while the remaining 44% occurred on rural roads. Alcohol has been cited as a contributing factor in 10% of these accidents while speed was a factor in 21% of them.

The most common type of accident to have occurred in the state of California was a rear-end collision. This type of accident accounted for 27% of all accidents. This is followed by a broadside collision at 20%, a sideswipe collision at 13%, a head-on collision at 5%, and a single-vehicle accident at 2%. 

The most common causes of the accidents were speeding, distracted driving, failure to yield, and driving under the influence. Los Angeles was the city with the most number of accidents followed by San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento.

California Accidents Today:

While the total number of accidents has reduced in California compared to 2021, it is still quite high. Nationwide Report contains news regarding these accidents that are updated on a daily basis. 

California Accidents Yesterday:

Nationwide Report makes sure that all accidents that have occurred in California as early as yesterday will be reported. You can take a look at any such report as you would like. 

California Accident Reports:

Every accident that has occurred in the state of California has a record of it on our website. You can take a look at it whenever you please. In case you are not able to find the records, you can make a request for one.