A 26-year-old Illawarra woman has been flown to hospital after the small tip truck she was driving crashed into a Milton house on Wednesday night.
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The road worker was driving a two-tonne Hino truck with soil in the back along the Princes Highway around 7.30pm when it crossed to the wrong side of the road, police said.
It then travelled down a small embankment and crashed into the lower level of a two-storey home.
Fire and Rescue NSW Ulladulla crews, along with members of the SES, used acrow props to secure the house structure and winch the truck from where it was embedded in the building.
A Fire and Rescue spokesperson described the incident as a complex, multi-agency rescue with a good outcome.
"The level of entrapment was tricky," the spokesperson said.
"Her head was out the window, tangled in a door frame, hard up against the house and lower body crushed.
"We had to free her head, stabilise the house, winch the vehicle off the house and then release her legs from compression.
"It [the operation] went well, I'm pretty sure she's gonna be okay too."
It took about 90 minutes to free the woman, before she was stabilised and airlifted to St George Hospital in a serious condition with leg injuries.
The rescue effort was completed shortly before 10pm.
Skye Haining, her partner Ben Argent and her four children had just sat down to watch the State of Origin when the truck smashed into their home.
"The house just shook," was how Ms Haining described the impact.
"Ben ran out and said 'call the ambulance'."
Pointing to the hole in the house just above her children's bedrooms, she said she was thankful they were not hurt.
Ms Haining said she tried to help the injured woman while waiting for emergence services to arrive.
"She wanted me to call her partner and call her mother," she said.
"She was just screaming and saying she could not feel her legs."
The woman was able to tell Ms Haining how to get into her phone to make the calls.
The family have lived in the house for four years and said the clean-up was finished by midnight.
The house was recently sold and the new owners were on their way to Milton to inspect the structural damage.
- With Damian McGill
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A fire and rescue spokesperson described the incident was a complex, multi-agency rescue with a good outcome.
"The level of entrapment was tricky," the spokesperson said.
"Her head was out window tangled in door frame, hard up against house and lower body crushed.
"We had to free head, stabilise the house, winch vehicle off the house and then release her legs from compression.