How to resolve AdBlock issue? NORTH COAST, Calif. – A Tuesday afternoon vehicle crash temporarily shut down a portion of highway just outside the Lake County line.
The California Highway Patrol reported Tuesday afternoon that Highway 175 just east of mile post marker 8.1 Mendocino, near the Mendocino/Lake County line, had been shut down due to the solo-vehicle crash.
According to reports from the scene a vehicle went off the road and down a 100-foot ravine just before 1 p.m.
Radio reports indicated that Cal Fire helicopters 101 and 104 helped remove the patients from the ravine with the use of a stokes basket.
At least one of the crash victims was transported to Lampson Field, where a REACH air ambulance was to transport them to an out-of-county hospital, according to radio reports.
Just after 2:45 p.m., the CHP said the westbound lane had reopened, but the eastbound lane remained closed.
The CHP did not give a time estimate for when the highway would fully reopen.
Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
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