Despite onlookers’ rescue efforts, a driver died Sunday when a vehicle caught fire after hitting a tree in Lowell, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.
Lake County Sheriff’s officers were dispatched about 4:45 p.m. Sunday to 14700 Belshaw Road for a vehicle that had gone off the road and hit a tree, Public Information Officer Mark Back said.
Several bystanders tried to save the driver, who was unconscious and the only person inside the vehicle, from the flames, but they were unable to because of the damage from hitting the tree, Back said.
The cause of the crash is still unknown, and more details will be released as the Lake County Sheriff’s Crash Reconstruction Unit investigates, he said.
The name, age, race, gender and where the driver is from is unknown, according to a press release from the Lake Counter Coroner’s Office.
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