A truck driver is recovering in hospital after a crash at Belford south of Singleton overnight.
Police say the 39-year-old was driving his refrigerated prime mover westbound on the new England Highway just before 8.30 last night when he swerved onto the nature strip and back onto the road before crashing down an embankment into a number of trees.
He was trapped for a short time before being released and taken to the John Hunter Hospital with lacerations and abrasions to his face and back.
A heavy vehicle tow truck was brought in to salvage the truck.
Police hope to speak to the driver in hospital this morning.
