Overturned car on I-80 injures 2, snarls traffic

A sports car heading east on Interstate 80 in Pinole crashed into the center divide and overturned multiple times Monday about noon before coming to a rest upside down and trapping a man and woman inside, police said.

The driver of the 1991 Mazda Miata had minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, but his female passenger sustained major injuries and was airlifted to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, according to Officer Brandon Correia, a California Highway Patrol spokesman.

While the helicopter was landing at the crash scene, all lanes of the freeway near Pinole Valley Road were closed.