Birdseye man LifeFlighted for head injury

Update: Englert was released from St. Mary’s over the weekend following the accident.

He was originally listed in critical condition Friday morning, but his condition was updated to fair later in the day.

Birdseye — Deputies are investigating a single-vehicle accident that sent a Birdseye man to St. Mary’s Medical Center this afternoon.

Deputies responded to the accident on Schnellville Road about a half mile east of County Road 975E between Birdseye and Schnellville at about 3:34 p.m.

Craig Englert, 20, of S. Kings Ridge Road, received a head injury from the accident and was taken by ambulance from the scene to a landing zone at the Schnellville Community Club to be take by helicopter to St. Mary’s.

Englert remained in a critical condition as of Friday morning.

According to authorities, Englert was eastbound on Schnellville Road in a 1994 Pontiac Trans Am when his vehicle started to go off the right side of the road for an unknown reason. Englert over-corrected and went off the left side of the road into a ditch and the left side of his car struck an embankment. His vehicle stopped just off the roadway.

Schnellville First Responders and Memorial Hospital Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene.

Englert was wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident. Neither drugs nor alcohol are believed to be factors in the crash.

The crash is still under investigation.