LUCERNE, Calif. – One person was injured and a building was damaged as the result of an early Saturday morning vehicle crash.
The crash occurred at around 12:45 a.m. Saturday on Highway 20 at 11th Avenue in Lucerne.
A silver sedan, which appeared to have been heading westbound on Highway 20, crashed into the east side of a building that formerly housed a travel business at 6264 E. Highway 20.
Before the car hit the side of the structure, it took out about 20 feet of chain link fence and scraped a chunk of bark off of a large tree.
About a third of the side of the building was punched through by the car's front end.
Radio reports indicated that an elderly male driver, the vehicle's only occupant, was injured and had to be extricated.
The driver was then transported by Northshore Fire ambulance to Lucerne Harbor Park a block away, where a REACH air ambulance landed to transport the patient to an out-of-county trauma center.
The California Highway Patrol was on the scene, with officers investigating what led to the crash.
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