A driver has been taken to hospital suffering a head injury after his car crashed in South Dubbo on Sunday.
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Rescuers used the jaws of life equipment to free the man from the wreckage of the sedan, an operation that took at least half an hour.
Police are investigating if speed was a factor.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Gipps and Denison streets between 12 and 12.30pm.
Police, paramedics, Fire and Rescue NSW and the Dubbo Rescue Squad arrived at the scene to find a white Ford Falcon sedan was heavily damaged and had partially mounted a gutter on Gipps Street.
The vehicle had green P-plates displayed.
Dubbo Rescue Squad freed the man with the aid of the jaws of life equipment.
Squad captain David Chenhall said the rescue took about half an hour, with paramedics stabilising the patient and then rescuers getting him out efficiently and in a way that minimised his injuries.
A NSW Ambulance spokesman said the man was conscious and breathing, and had multiple lacerations to his head.
Police Inspector Mark Dixon said it was a single vehicle accident with a single male occupant of the vehicle.
The man suffered a head injury, was assessed at the scene and was taken to Dubbo Hospital for examination as a precaution, he said.
A section of Gipps Street was closed until the wreckage was cleared away and the incident drew residents of the neighbourhood out into the street.
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A South Dubbo road has re-opened after a man was freed from the wreckage of a car earlier on Sunday.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Gipps and Denison streets between 12 and 12.30pm where they found a Ford Falcon sedan heavily damaged.
Dubbo Rescue Squad released a man with the aid of the jaws of life equipment.
Squad captain David Chenhall said the rescue took about half an hour, with paramedics stabilising the patient and then rescuers getting him out efficiently and in a way that minimised his injuries.
The squad had about eight members on the scene and two rescue trucks.
Multiple vehicles from Fire and Rescue NSW, police and ambulance also attended, and the incident drew residents of the neighbourhood out on the street.
Gipps Street, which had been closed to traffic after the crash, was reopened on Sunday afternoon after a tow truck loaded the damaged Ford sedan.
EARLIER:
Emergency services have been called to the scene of car crash at the intersection of Gipps and Denison Street in South Dubbo.
Police, ambulance, NSW Fire and Rescue and the Dubbo Rescue Squad arrived on the scene to find a white Ford Falcon sedan was heavily damaged and partially mounted on the gutter on Gipps Street.
The vehicle was heavily damaged with the front and back windscreens smashed and several panels hanging off the car. The vehicle had green P-plates.
It was understood it was a single vehicle accident and the driver, a male in his early 20s, was trapped for approximately 45 minutes before he was freed.
He was conscious and breathing, and had multiple lacerations to his head. He was taken to Dubbo Hospital.
A section of Gipps Street remains blocked off while crews worked to clean up.