Two hospitalized after early morning crash in Washington Twp.
A Sunday morning, one-vehicle crash on Oneida Valley Road sent two people to the hospital with one of them being flown.
According to Butler County 911 dispatchers, the accident was reported at 2:42 a.m. Sunday to 2155 Oneida Valley Road, Washington Township.
North Washington Fire Chief Bruce Confer said he was not on the scene, but he received information from his firefighters who were there.
Confer said firefighters from North Washington and West Sunbury departments arrived to find a Honda CRV down an embankment with two people still inside it.
“We removed the passenger door to access the passenger,” Confer said. “A medical helicopter was called and landed at (North Washington) Rodeo grounds.”
Karns City Regional Ambulance with help from medics for Butler Ambulance drove the passenger to the landing zone. The patient was taken by air to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Confer said the driver was then removed from the vehicle and taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital.
Read the full story in Monday's Butler Eagle.