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Three Hospitalized in I-10 Whitewater Crash
One of those injured had to be cut from their vehicle with the jaws of life, fire officials reported.
Three people were hospitalized following a crash Thursday on Interstate 10 in the Whitewater area, fire officials reported.
The accident happened around 6:50 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-10, just east of State Route 62, according to Melody Hendrickson of the Riverside County Fire Department.
Two vehicles collided for unknown reasons, trapping one of the people inside, Hendrickson reported.
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By 7:20 p.m., that person was freed from the wreckage.
"There were a total of three patients transported to an area hospital – one major, one moderate (the extricated patient) and one minor," Hendrickson said.
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