HOMELAND: Head-on crash leaves two with major injuries
HOMELAND: Head-on crash leaves two with major injuries
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A head-on collision that occurred early Thursday. Aug. 6, in Homeland caused two people to suffer major injuries.
About 2:44 a.m. Thursday, a 36-year-old Hemet man was driving east on Highway 74 towards Highland Palm Drive, according to a California Highway Patrol news release. “For an unknown reason,” the news release said, the man’s 1996 Honda Accord veered over the painted center median and into the westbound lanes.
A 32-year-old Hemet woman, who was driving a 2008 Toyota Yaris, saw the Accord coming at her, the news release said. She steered right in an effort to avoid a collision, but was unsuccessful.
The two cars collided, pinning both drivers in their vehicles, the news release said.
As a result of the crash, the driver of the Honda Accord suffered bleeding on the brain, a lacerated liver and a broken foot. The driver of the Toyota Yaris suffered a lacerated spleen and a broken foot. A 29-year-old woman was also in the Yaris, and suffered minor injuries.
