LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A crash that occurred near Clearlake Oaks on Saturday night seriously injured one person.
The wreck occurred at about 9:45 p.m. Saturday along Highway 20 at Garden Court.
Firefighters were first dispatched to a report of a vehicle into a house with one person reported trapped.
However, when arriving on the scene, Northshore Fire personnel reported over the air that they found the vehicle behind a house, not into it, with one person who had been ejected from the vehicle trapped underneath it.
Incident command requested an air ambulance to land at Cal Fire’s Station 40 in Clearlake Oaks.
Extrication efforts continued until after 11 p.m. The crash victim was transported to the landing zone at about 11:20 p.m. to be flown to a regional trauma center, according to radio reports.
Scanner traffic indicated the incident was terminated at 11:50 p.m.
Additional information will be published as it becomes available.
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One reported injured in Saturday night wreck
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