On Wednesday, September 30th, the Kern County Coroner’s office identified Florencio Zamora, 17, as the fatal victim of a solo car accident. It occured in Wasco, California, on Tuesday, September 29th.
According to the coroner’s office, Zamora operated an SUV on Highway 46, west of Main Drain Road a little after 10 p.m. The car accident report disclosed that he left the roadway for unknown reasons, and his vehicle overturned.
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Responding paramedics declared him dead at the scene. The cause of the crash is under investigation by the California Highway Patrol. There is no additional information.
Data released by the Center for Disease Control shows that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of teenagers’ death in the United States. Statistics from 2017 revealed that about 2,364 teens aged between 16 and 19 died from traffic collisions, and about 300 000 suffered injuries.
It means that every day, six teens within that age bracket died due to motor vehicle accidents and hundreds more sustained injuries. Male teenagers are more at risk than females, and teen drivers between 16 and 19 are three times more likely to crash than people who are 20 years and above.
Other risk factors are teenagers driving with passengers of the same age group, and newly licensed teens driving without experience and adult supervision. The center believes that these factors can be mitigated if teenagers follow proven and preventable safety tips and traffic rules and regulations.
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