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Medical helicopter crashes on US highway, three injured

By AAP Newswire

Oct 7, 2025

Emergency personnel at a helicopter crash in Sacramento, California — Lanes of a freeway were closed in Sacramento, California, after a helicopter crashed on Monday. -AP

A medical emergency helicopter has crashed on a busy stretch of Highway 50 in the Californian city of Sacramento, injuring three, although there was no patient aboard.

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Survivors were taken to hospital to be treated, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty said in a post on X on Monday night after the aircraft went down near the city's 59th Street on the eastbound side of the highway.