4 Killed, 7 Hurt in 3-Car Accident on Elk Grove California

Fatal car accident: Four people were killed Sunday afternoon when an SUV crossed the median strip on Interstate 5 and crashed into two oncoming vehicles near Hood-Franklin Road in Elk Grove.

Driver lost control on the freeway and crossed over the center median into oncoming traffic.Four people died at the scene, including the SUV driver and the driver of one of the vehicles he hit.Seven people were injured, some of them critically. At least one was airlifted to a trauma center.
Seven other people were injured, three of them critically. Their injuries ranged from broken wrists and ribs to major injuries, according to the Bee report. A passenger is the Accord suffered major injuries, as did one of the passengers int eh Expedition.

The six other injury victims were passengers in the Expedition a woman in her 40s and a 17-year-old boy, both from Lathrop, plus three women ages 18, 19 and 23 from Berkeley, and a 20-year-old man from Berkeley.

One of the victims was airlifted to U.C. Davis Medical Center. The others were rushed to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Kaiser South, Sutter General, and Methodist Hospital.