(LaPorte, IN) - A driver was serious injury when a motor vehicle crashed into a building

in La Porte over the weekend.

Police say the driver was a 20 year old man from the Michigan City area.

He was heading southbound about 7 a.m. Sunday when he failed to negotiate a curve and

SUV plowed into the Super Fireworks building at 425 Pine Lake Ave, police said.

Assistant Police Chief Nathan Thode said the driver was unconscious after the crash

and due to the nature of his injuries he was flown to an outside hospital.

He was the lone occupant of the vehicle, he said.

The name of the driver was not being released.

Thode said whether alcohol or drugs were involved remained under investigation.

Witnesses say the vehicle was halfway inside the fireworks store next to Red Carpet Liquors and

a number of bricks from the structure wound up inside the vehicle.

Pine Lake Ave. was closed to allow a medical helicopter to land.