BY IAN CROUCH
A man working on the Newcastle Inner City Bypass extension has been injured in a truck crash overnight.
Police say the 56-year-old man was driving a dump truck on the work site off Lookout Road at New Lambton Heights just before 10pm when the truck crashed down a gully.
He was trapped under the dump truck for a short time before being freed by the Police Rescue Squad.
He was treated by the Critical Care Medical Team from the Westpac Rescue Helicopter before baing taken by ambulance to the John Hunter Hospital in a serious but stable condition with multiple crush injuries.
SafeWork Inspectors will attend the site this morning to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.
