Three people were taken to Erie County Medical Center with injuries following a rollover crash on Saunders Settlement Road in Cambria early Sunday morning.
Emergency crews responded to the 3100 block of Saunders Settlement for reports of the crash around 3:40 a.m. Upon arrival, they located a white Dodge Journey on its roof against a tree.
The driver, a 22-year-old Lockport man, was pinned under the vehicle by his arm. Using airbags and the jaws of life, Sanborn Fire Co. members lifted the vehicle off the man’s arm and extricated him from the vehicle through the rear passenger door, which they had cut off.
The front seat passenger was assisted out of the vehicle by witnesses at the scene and the rear passenger was helped out of he wrecked SUV by arriving deputies.
They were all taken to ECMC by Tri Community Ambulances. The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office described their injuries as non-life threatening.
Mercy Flight was requested and was on its way but a line of thunderstorms between their base at the Buffalo airport and the crash site forced them to turn around.
Preliminarily information indicated the Dodge Journey was traveling west on Saunders Settlement when it left the roadway and then struck a culvert, a mailbox and trees. The vehicle overturned and came to a rest on its roof up against a tree.
The driver was issued traffic tickets for unlicensed operation and unsafe lane change and the rear seat passenger was ticketed for not wearing a seat belt.
The cause of the crash is under investigation by the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office.