Published July 14. 2019 10:55PM
A driver was seriously injured Sunday evening when involved in a crash in Jim Thorpe.
The crash occurred just after 8 p.m. as a man was traveling east in the ten hundred block of Center Avenue when he lost control. His car swerved to the right entering a dense brush area traveling almost 100 feet off the roadway.
According to reports at the scene, the car's On-Star emergency system helped in locating the wreckage and the victim. He was treated at the scene by Lehighton paramedics before being flown to a Lehigh Valley area trauma center.
Jim Thorpe firefighters extricated the victim from the scene and carried him back to the roadway. Jim Thorpe police are investigating the incident.
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