The 17-year-old Fairfield resident told officers he was traveling westbound on Cross Highway around 7 p.m., when he swerved to avoid a deer in the road and his car rolled, hit the tree and went into the creek.
He was transported to St. Vincent’s Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
He received a verbal warning for failure to drive right.
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