CLAY COUNTY — A 26-year-old Clay City man was airlifted to an Indiana hospital following an early Saturday morning crash in Clay County.

According to the Illinois State Police, around 3:28 a.m. Saturday, Eber Misael Perez-Escalante was traveling south on the Dieterich blacktop two miles north of the Louisville Road when he ran off the right side of the road, over-corrected, slid off the left side of the pavement and overturned multiple times.

Escalante was ejected from his vehicle and was initially taken to the Clay County Hospital by ambulance and then airlifted to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville.