1 Patient Airlifted After Crashing Into Steep Canyon Terrain in Angeles National Forest

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, Calif., July 8 (KNN) — One patient was airlifted to a local area trauma center and another was transported by ambulance after a high-speed crash ended approximately 40 feet down over the side of North San Gabriel Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest.

Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel and California Highway Patrol officers responded to North San Gabriel Canyon Road at mile marker 27 for a traffic collision at approximately 11:46 p.m. Sunday night.

CHP had reports of possibly two vehicles over the side with persons heard screaming by passers-by. Witnesses succeeded in guiding emergency resources to the correct location.

Upon arrival, crews were able to determine that the first vehicle found down over the side of the roadway was from a previous crash at the same location. The vehicle involved in this collision had a male driver and female passenger, with the male trapped inside the vehicle.

Crews managed to free the driver and extricate the victims from the site of the wreckage. Both patients were each individually secured in rescue baskets and brought back up the steep terrain to the roadside where awaiting emergency medical personnel whisked them away to hospitals.

The male was airlifted to a local trauma center, and the female was transported by ground to a local area hospital. The conditions of both patients are not known at this time.

CHP is investigating the crash.

Zak Holman, Video Journalist / KNN