LOWER LAKE, Calif. – A portion of Highway 29 will remain closed until Thursday evening while investigators continue their work at the scene of a fatal crash.

The wreck occurred before 7 a.m. on Highway 29 and Diener Drive, as Lake County News has reported.

A sheriff's deputy who was reported to be in pursuit of home invasion robbery suspects was involved in a three-vehicle wreck that killed one person, according to reports from the scene. Information was not immediately available regarding how the crash occurred.

The deputy was seriously injured and flown to an out-of-county trauma center. There was no update early Thursday afternoon on the deputy's condition.

Since the crash, Highway 29 has remained closed 2.6 miles north of the junction with Highway 53 to the Kit's Corner/Highway 281 intersection, according to Caltrans. Traffic is being diverted around the scene and onto Point Lakeview and Soda Bay roads.

Efforts to extricate the fatal crash victim continued into the afternoon, radio reports indicated.

California Highway Patrol Officer Kory Reynolds told Lake County News that the CHP's Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team was working at the scene. The team is based in Redding at the CHP Northern Division headquarters.

Reynolds said the highway is expected to reopen between 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. Thursday.

It's possible the closure could last longer, as some reports from the scene Thursday afternoon indicated the highway may not reopen until nightfall.

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