UPDATE: 1:00 AM, 10/2/2022
Around 7:35 pm on October 1st, a 22-year old driver and his passenger ran into a tree at a high speed, leaving both injured.
Redding resident Matthew Detrant was on the the ramp which connections State Route 44 East to I-5 South, near the area of Hilltop Drive, when he made what CHP refers to as a "unsafe turning movement", causing his car to careen off the road and down a grass embankment. Here, Detrant slammed into a tree, leaving Detrant with major injuries. His passenger, 22-year old Anderson resident Colton Brown, also sustained minor injuries. Both were quickly transported to Mercy Medical Center.
CHP says alcohol doesn't appear to be a factor in the collision. Similarly, both Detrant and Brown were wearing their seatbelts, saving them from further, possibly fatal, injury.
ORIGINAL STORY: 10/1/2022
On Saturday night, two people were injured in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 44 east on-ramp heading Southbound Interstate 5.
According to California Highway Patrol, they received calls about a collision of a vehicle that crashed into a tree around 7:36 pm.
Two people inside the vehicle were transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries.