A Tharbogang man has had a narrow escape after crashing into a power pole on a sharp bend on the way to work this morning.
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The 50-year-old man was trapped in the wreck of a ute for almost two hours after the incident on a dirt road intersection at Tharbogang, northwest of Griffith.
Emergency services were called to Stevenson Road just before 6am, responding to reports of a single vehicle accident where a ute had rolled into a pole.
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"Ultimately he was taken to Griffith Base Hospital with a head laceration, various other grazes and bruising."
A Griffith State Emergency Service team assisted paramedics and police with freeing the man from the crushed cab.
The driver was out of the vehicle and on the way to hospital in a stable condition by 7.40am, NSW Police confirmed.
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