Fort Lauderdale, FL : A Lauderdale County man was injured in a fiery crash at Lauderdale 1 On Monday, April 25th, 2016

A Lauderdale County man remains in critical condition at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville after he was injured in a fiery crash late Monday night off Lauderdale 1, authorities said.
Dustin Woods, 27, is in the trauma unit at Vanderbilt Hospital after he was flown to the facility late Monday.
Troopers said Woods was injured when the 2002 Hyundai GSX he was driving left the road and ran off an embankment near the intersection of Lauderdale 14 and Lauderdale 1. According to reports, the accident occurred at 11 p.m.
Emergency personnel at the scene said Woods had just dropped his family off and had turned off Lauderdale 14, at the east end of the Waterloo Bridge, onto Lauderdale 1 and was heading north. Firefighters said the vehicle went over the edge of

the road and kept going down the embankment. The vehicle appeared to have flipped several times before it caught fire and came to rest near the bottom of the embankment.
Emergency personnel at the scene said Woods received burns to one of his legs and sustained other injuries.
Waterloo Fire Chief Ted Kavich said as the car went down the embankment, the driver was able to get out of the vehicle before it crashed into a group of trees about 10 feet from the lake and burst into flames.
“He almost ended up in the lake,” Kavich said.
Kavich said firefighters put a boat in the water in case the victim couldn’t be lifted up the embankment.
“We were able to use a skid unit to haul him up the bluff,” Kavich said.
Firefighters secured Woods to a backboard and pulled him up the embankment to the road. Kavich said the department’s high-angle rescue training proved to be valuable in the rescue situation.
“We had the equipment and the training, and everything worked well,” Kavich said.
Kavich said Woods was taken to the parking lot at the Waterloo boat ramp and flown to the Nashville hospital.
A Florence-based wrecker company had to use a “boom truck” Tuesday morning to pull the burned and crashed Hyundai up the embankment.
The accident is under investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Quad-Cities State Troopers Post.

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Lauderdale man remains critical after Monday night accident