LEXINGTON (CBS) – An elderly man is expected to survive a crash that sent his car flying off the Route 2 overpass in Lexington.

State Police say the 80-year-old driver from Lincoln somehow lost control and drove off the Route 2 Eastbound overpass, rolled down an embankment, and landed next to the guardrail on Route 128.

He was transported to Leahy Clinic in Burlington with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Two lanes of the highway were shut down while police cleaned up the wreckage.

The exact cause of the crash is being investigated.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Kim Tunnicliffe reports