LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – One person was reported to have died and two others were seriously injured in a solo-vehicle wreck on Highway 20 late on Saturday afternoon.

The crash was reported just before 5 p.m. Saturday on Highway 20 at Morine Ranch Road in Clearlake Oaks.

Northshore and Cal Fire firefighters and California Highway Patrol officers were dispatched on the report of a single vehicle into a tree.

Reports from the scene described the vehicle as a dark-colored SUV.

The first firefighters to arrive at the scene reported finding one person deceased and two people with critical injuries trapped inside of the vehicle, according to radio reports.

Two air ambulances were requested, with Cal Fire dispatch reporting that REACH and CalStar would respond to a landing zone at Orchard Shores Homeowners Association.

Radio reports indicated that firefighters extricated the two surviving crash victims and they were flown to out-of-county trauma centers.

The sheriff’s office and a mortuary also responded to the scene due to the fatality, according to radio reports.

More details were not immediately available from the CHP, which separately confirmed the fatality over the air and on its online incident logs.

Additional information will be published as it becomes available.

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