A woman suffered multiple injuries after she was thrown from a car in an early morning crash.

The 32-year-old was a front seat passenger in the vehicle when it hit trees and flipped in Hamilton Parish today.

Police said emergency crews were called to the single car crash — on North Shore Road near the junction with East Point Lane — at 2.15am.

A spokesman explained: “It appears that the car involved was being driven west along North Shore Road when it crashed into some trees and overturned.

“The front seat passenger, said to be a 32-year-old woman, sustained multiple injuries after apparently being ejected from the vehicle.”

He said she was taken by ambulance to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where she was being treated in the Intensive Care Unit and was in a stable condition.

The spokesman added: “The driver, believed to be a 30-year-old Smith’s woman, was not seriously hurt and later arrested on suspicion of impaired driving.”

Traffic was diverted for about three hours for officers to carry out investigations.

Witnesses were asked to call police on 295-0011.