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Accident with injuries and entrapment reported at Route 20 and County Line Road, Darien

By Billie Owens

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A motor-vehicle accident with injuries and entrapment is reported at County Line Road and Route 20. Darien fire is responding along with medics.

UPDATE 7:19 p.m.: A dispatcher says the injuries may be serious and there are two vehicles involved.

UPDATE 7:22 p.m.: Mercy Flight is called to the scene.

UPDATE 7:31 p.m.: A victim is complaining of severe leg pain. Responders are working to free the entrapped. Mercy Flight has a five-minute ETA.

UPDATE 7:36 p.m.: "The patient was just extricated from the vehicle."

UPDATE 7:37 p.m.: Mercy Flight has landed.

UPDATE 7:53 p.m.: Mercy Flight is airborne with one patient aboard and headed to Erie County Medical Center.

UPDATE 8:09 p.m.: An emergency responder told Howard at the scene that there were two people in each vehicle. Three of them were treated at the scene. The injuries of the person taken by Mercy Flight to ECMC were unspecified. That victim was a passenger in a green sedan -- a Dodge Neon. A witness who arrived first on scene said the victim was initially unconscious but after regaining consciousness, complained of back and side pain. The driver of the other vehicle, a red Chevy Blazer, was a female and she was taken into custody. The actual site of the accident is in Erie County and its officials would provide no additional information.

UPDATE 9:06 p.m.: We're attempting to get more information from the Erie County Sheriff's Office, which is proving difficult.

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