Driver Survives 3 Days In Angeles National Forest After Crashing

TUJUNGA, CA — A driver managed two stay alive amid near-freezing overnight temperatures for nearly three days after crashing off the side of a road in the Angeles National Forest this week.

The driver was rescued by tactical medics from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Special Enforcement Bureau at about 11 a.m. Wednesday in the 3200 block of Big Tujunga Canyon Road in Tujunga, Deputy Michael Chen of the Sheriff's Information Bureau told City News Service.

The driver was flown in a sheriff's department helicopter to a Huntington Memorial Hospital trauma center in unknown condition, the department reported.

The cause of crash was not immediately available.

Rescuers believed the victim had been there since Sunday. The region has been under a cold weather alert since Monday as a series of storms bring freezing overnight temperatures and scattered showers to the region this week

City News Service contributed to this report.