Helicopter called to Saxonburg Blvd. crash
CLINTON TWP — A medical helicopter was called to a crash on Saxonburg Boulevard near its intersection with Wylie Road on Thursday, Aug. 15, after a vehicle went over a hillside into a creek.
The crash was reported just before 3:40 p.m. Thursday. According to Christopher Dean, chief of the Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company, the driver was the sole occupant of the vehicle, and it is not yet known how the car ended up in the creek. The driver was entrapped and needed to be extricated.
“When we got on scene, the patient was entrapped. We had to cut him out of the car,” Bell said. “We used our Hurst tools to remove the patient.”
After roughly half an hour, the Saxonburg VFC extricated the driver before he was airlifted to a hospital. The STAT MedEvac helicopter touched down in an open field to load the patient shortly before 5 p.m. and took off roughly 15 minutes later.
Aside from the helicopter, the Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company and Fire Police, as well as the Pennsylvania State Police, Saxonburg EMS and the West Deer Police responded to the scene.
Due to the emergency response, a section of Saxonburg Boulevard was completely blocked to traffic in both directions, and vehicles heading down the street were forced to turn back by Saxonburg Fire Police.
