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Driver injured in Tuesday morning crash on Deerfoot Trail

Calgary police investigate a crash on northbound Deerfoot Trail on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Global News

Deerfoot Trail was temporarily closed to northbound traffic on Tuesday morning following a crash that badly injured one person.

Calgary police said the single-vehicle collision happened on northbound Deerfoot Trail just before 5 a.m.

According to police, the vehicle rolled and caught fire underneath the Seton Boulevard overpass.

Calgary police investigate a crash on northbound Deerfoot Trail on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Global News / Lauren Pullen

Paramedics rushed the 40-year-old man driving the vehicle to hospital in serious condition.

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Police said the driver was the only person in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

Northbound Deerfoot Trail reopened shortly before 9 a.m.

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