A young man suffered serious injuries when his utility vehicle rolled on the Olympic Highway outside Junee on Sunday night.
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The 21-year-old man was airlifted to Wagga Base Hospital in a "serious condition" after being trapped in his vehicle for 90 minutes with head, chest and upper and lower limb injuries.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Eamonn Purcell said emergency services were called to the Olympic Highway near Albert Street at just after 9pm.
"We got a call that a car had impacted a tree at high speed on what they call the 'mad mile' between the Jailbreak Inn Cafe and Junee," he said.
"When our paramedics got there from Junee, they found a 21-year-old male was severely trapped and compressed in the cabin of his ute.
"The ute was on its side and he was trapped...he was the only occupant."
A Murrumbidgee Local Health District spokesperson said on Monday that the man remained at the hospital but was now in a "stable condition".
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Mr Purcell said paramedics had worked "very hard" to stabilise the man's condition while the Volunteer Rescue Association ensured that the car would not tip over further.
"An intensive care paramedic from Wagga also responded and an ambulance rescue helicopter from Orange also responded with myself as the supervisor," Mr Purcell said.
"We found that his lower limbs were compressed quite severely so it took us about an hour and half from the receipt of the call to extricate him from the vehicle."
Mr Purcell said the cooperation between Junee VRA, Junee fire brigade and paramedics was "as usual, exemplary".
"It was lucky that were were working extremely well as a team as it was an extremely complex rescue and it's not everyday that you have someone trapped with compression in a vehicle with an added extremity under the vehicle at one point," he said.
"It was as complex as it gets and all the personnel on scene from all the different services worked extremely well."
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