UPDATE, 4:29 p.m.: Estimated time for vehicle retrieval is one hour.  

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UPDATE, 4:14 p.m.: Emergency personnel at the scene tell dispatchers that one person has died. They will need to close some lanes of the freeway in order to retrieve the vehicle which is approximately 50 feet off the roadway. 

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UPDATE, 4:02 p.m.: According to first responders there are two patients, one who is wounded and walking and another “possibly 11-44.”

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Original Post: At around 3:45 p.m., LoCO’s CHP Watch reports a white SUV left the roadway and collided with trees off Highway 101 near the Westhaven Exit south of Trinidad. Calfire and an ambulance is en route to the scene. 

According to scanner traffic the driver may require extrication as the vehicle is reportedly “suspended in the trees.”

Updates below.