Somerset, PA : Two women injured and one injured after a crash on West Patriot Street in Somerset on Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Two women were injured and one was flown by helicopter after an accident on West Patriot Street in Somerset Borough left the vehicle nearly flattened.

A group of about 25 onlookers gathered at The Patriot as Somerset Volunteer Fire Department firefighters cut off the roof and extracted the passengers.

Somerset Borough police Chief Randy Cox said the passenger of the car was severely injured and flown to Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown. The driver was taken by ambulance to Somerset Hospital. Their names were not available.

"Early indications are that a passenger vehicle was traveling south on Franklin Avenue, crossing Patriot Street, and ran through a solid red light and was struck by a tractor-trailer," he said.

The car's passenger side was crushed by the tractor-trailer traveling east. The car landed in the grass outside the facility's parking lot. The tractor-trailer driver was uninjured.

The accident happened around 7:15 p.m. Around 7:30, a helicopter landed in a baseball field near the accident to transport the patient.

Somerset fire department, ambulance and police, as well as state police responded. Cox said that, as of 8:30 p.m., he was waiting for a state police accident reconstruction team from Westmoreland County to investigate the accident.

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2 injured, 1 flown from accident in Somerset