Driver from single-vehicle crash in Prairie Grove is flown to hospital

A single-vehicle rollover crash on Gracy Road in Prairie Grove left the driver with life-threatening injuries.

The Nunda Rural Fire Protection District responded to the call at 8 p.m. Thursday to a location on Gracy Road between Route 31 and Barreville Road.

The vehicle “appeared to have collided with a tree and rolled onto its roof, heavily entrapping an adult male driver,” Alex Vucha of the Nunda Rural Fire Protection District said in a news release.

The McHenry Township Fire Protection District and a rescue squad from the Cary Fire Protection District helped in getting the driver out of the car. The driver was the only occupant of the vehicle.

Almost a dozen firefighters were successful in extricating the driver from the car at 9:23 p.m., according to the report. This was about an hour after firefighters arrived at the scene.

Although a medical helicopter was on standby, the driver was taken to Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital. Order of Saint Francis Life Flight later flew the driver to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.

The Prairie Grove Police Department is investigating the crash.