Officials are investigating after a medical helicopter crashed on a Sacramento freeway Monday evening.

The Sacramento Fire Department said a REACH medical helicopter went down shortly after 7 p.m. on eastbound Highway 50 near 59th Street.

Three crew members — a pilot, a nurse and a paramedic — were on board and all were taken to area hospitals with critical injuries, Captain Justin Sylvia with Sacramento Fire said. No vehicles on the freeway were involved.

Two crew members were located in the roadway while one of the crew members was trapped under the helicopter when the first unit from the fire department arrived, Sylvia said. A fire captain and bystanders who offered help were able to lift the aircraft off the trapped crew member.

"We are in the process of determining the details of

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