A Sunday morning, one-vehicle crash on Oneida Valley Road sent two people to the hospital with one of them being flown.

According to Butler County 911 dispatchers, the accident was reported at 2:42 a.m. Sunday to 2155 Oneida Valley Road, Washington Township.

North Washington Fire Chief Bruce Confer said he was not on the scene, but he received information from his firefighters who were there.

Confer said firefighters from North Washington and West Sunbury departments arrived to find a Honda CRV down an embankment with two people still inside.

“We removed the passenger door to access the passenger,” Confer said. “A medical helicopter was called and landed at (North Washington) Rodeo grounds.”

Karns City Regional Ambulance, with help from medics from Butler Ambulance, drove the passenger to the landing zone. The patient was taken by air to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Confer said the driver was then removed from the vehicle and taken by ambulance to Butler Memorial Hospital.

Confer said the SUV had been traveling south on Oneida Valley Road when it left the road and hit a stump hard enough to throw the CRV off the ground by about four feet. He said while in the air, the vehicle hit another tree before falling to the ground.

“All the air bags deployed,” Confer said. “The front-end of the car did its job and crumpled with no intrusion into the passenger compartment.”

After the patients were taken from the scene, firefighters helped with traffic control around the accident until a tow truck removed the vehicle.

According to a report by Butler County 911, the scene was cleared about 4:23 a.m.