BY IAN CROUCH
A man has been trapped for 2 hours following a single vehicle crash at Fullerton Cove early Monday morning.
Emergency services were called to Nelson Bay Road between Fullerton Cove Road and Coxs Lane just after 3.00am.
They found a car crashed off the road and overturned at high speed, rolling down a 1 metre embankment and coming to rest against a tree.
The driver, a 27-year-old man, was trapped by confinement and could not be reached by paramedics.
The Port Stephens SES was called in and released the man from the wreckage just after 5.00am.
He's been taken by road ambulance to the John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition with suspected spinal injuries and a dislocated shoulder.