The driver involved in a Spring Creek car crash Tuesday afternoon is Nikolay Gusev, 18, of Centre Hall, according to an initial State College police report.
He was taken by Centre LifeLink ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center, but details about his condition were not immediately available Wednesday morning. Responders at the scene, in College Township, said Gusev was conscious after the wreck.
The initial written crash report, released by police Wednesday morning, indicates that Gusev had been headed west Tuesday on the Mount Nittany Expressway in a red Ford Focus ZX3.
When Gusev exited the expressway at Oak Hall at 1:18 p.m., the report shows, his vehicle left the exit ramp, drove onto a concrete island, blew through a stop sign and struck a concrete divider at the Warner Boulevard intersection. (Some maps identify Warner Boulevard as the Boalsburg Pike, as well.)
The car went airborne across the eastbound lane of Warner Boulevard after it hit the concrete divider, according to the crash report.
It remained airborne about 100 feet, passing over — and slightly striking — a metal guide rail and soaring over Spring Creek before hitting a stone embankment, the report shows.
The car then rolled onto its roof and came to rest in the waterway, according to the report.
Emergency responders found Gusev next to the vehicle, bleeding from his wounds, it says.
The vehicle appeared badly mangled when it was pulled from the stream later in the day. Warner Boulevard was partially closed for part of the afternoon.
It remains unclear what caused the wreck. A crash investigation — including an accident reconstruction — is continuing, according to the police report.
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