Victorville, CA, September 21 – Six people were hurt and a 35-year-old man lost his life when two vehicles collided in Victorville, according to the Victorville Police Department. The man, driving a Honda Civic, died at the scene. The driver and passengers of the second vehicle, a Chevrolet Traverse, were taken to Providence St. Mary Medical Center afterward. No additional information on their injuries has been released.
Victorville Man Killed, Six Injured in Two-Vehicle Crash at Nisqualli and Eleventh
The crash happened at about 6:32 p.m. on September 20, 2026, at the intersection of Nisqualli Road and Eleventh Avenue in Victorville. Investigators said the blue four-door Honda Civic was headed west on Nisqualli Road while the dark blue four-door Chevrolet Traverse approached from the south on Eleventh Avenue in a left-turn lane. The Traverse then turned east onto Nisqualli Road and collided with the oncoming Civic, striking it from the side.
The Victorville Major Accident Investigation Team responded to lead the inquiry, joining deputies from the Victorville Station, Victorville Fire Department crews and American Medical Response paramedics who arrived at the scene. The crash forced the closure of Nisqualli Road between Balsam Road and Ninth Avenue, along with Eleventh Avenue between Winona Street and Sitting Bull Street, for several hours.
As of this report, investigators had not disclosed the identities of the Chevrolet Traverse’s driver or passengers, nor detailed the extent of their injuries beyond confirming six people were hurt. The cause of the crash and whether any citations resulted have not been made public. The Victorville Police Department said the investigation is continuing.
What the at-fault driver is required to carry, and why it often is not enough
Vehicle Code section 16056 sets California’s minimum liability limits, and they changed recently. For a policy issued or renewed on or after 1 January 2025, the minimum is $30,000 for injury to or death of one person, $60,000 where two or more people are hurt, and $15,000 for property damage. Policies written before that date may still carry the older minimum of $15,000, $30,000 and $5,000.
Those are floors, not typical limits, and a single hospital admission can exhaust the lower figure before any other loss is counted. Where the at-fault driver carries the minimum, the uninsured and underinsured motorist cover on the injured person’s own policy is often the part that matters most, and it is worth checking early rather than after the other insurer has made an offer.
The deadline that applies to a claim like this one
Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 gives two years for an action for injury to, or for the death of, an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another. The same two years covers an injury claim and a death claim; there is no separate, shorter period because someone died.
Who is entitled to bring a claim when someone is killed
Code of Civil Procedure section 377.60 decides who may bring a wrongful death action. The first group is the surviving spouse, domestic partner, children and the issue of deceased children, or, where there is no surviving issue, whoever would take the estate by intestate succession.
A second group may bring the action only if they were financially dependent on the person who died: a putative spouse and their children, stepchildren, parents, and the legal guardians of the person who died where the parents are deceased. Parents are in that second group, which is the part families are most often surprised by, because dependency has to be shown rather than assumed.
Talking to someone about it
Culver Legal represents people injured in collisions across California. A conversation about what happened costs nothing, and we work on a contingency fee, which means there is no fee unless we win. If we do not win, we do not pass the case costs on to you either.
Nothing on this page is legal advice about any particular case, and the facts of a reported collision often change as the investigation continues.
