Six people — five adults and one child — were hospitalized with serious injuries Monday morning in a head-on collision caused by bald tires, excessive speed, and rain-slicked roads in Oroville.

•   A motorist in a Camaro with bald tires drove too fast on a wet road and lost control of the vehicle.

•   The Camaro spun out and skidded into oncoming traffic, where it collided head-on with a pickup truck.

•   All six people in both cars were hospitalized. A 60-year-old passenger in the pickup truck sustained major injuries and was airlifted to Enloe Medical Center in Chico.

The car accident occurred at around 11:20 a.m., according to a report in the Oroville Mercury-Register.

California Highway Patrol officer Justin Wallace said 37-year-old Mike Posey was driving a 1995 Chevrolet Camaro south on Lincoln Road when he lost control of the vehicle near Arnold Avenue. The Camaro spun out on the wet road and skidded across the center line into the northbound traffic lane.

The Camero veered directly into the path of an oncoming Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, driven by 30-year-old Miranda Pierson, who was unable to avoid a head-on collision.

Posey was taken to Oroville Hospital with a leg injury. Pierson and two of her four passengers — 39-year-old Christopher Masters and 2-year-old Chase Osbourn — also were transported to Oroville Hospital. Pierson suffered face, neck, and back injuries; Masters suffered a leg injury, and Osborn had cuts on his head.

Another of Pierson’s passengers, 60-year-old Sheila Roberts, was airlifted to Enloe Medical Center in Chico with major injuries. The fourth passenger, 17-year-old Chelsea Masters, sustained neck and back injuries and was transported to Enloe via ground ambulance.

The CHP accident report said Posey was driving “at an unsafe speed for conditions, and due to insufficient tire tread he lost control of the vehicle.”

Officers at the scene administered a sobriety test but and determined that Posey was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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