One man was injured and taken to the hospital following a rollover crash late Wednesday afternoon in Rush Township.

First responders were dispatched to 780 Hauto Highway, Route 54, at 3:41 p.m. for a report of a vehicle rollover with possible ejection.

Arriving on scene, responders found a white Ford SUV on its side with an injured driver ejected and lying partially beneath the vehicle.

Other motorists stopped to help, one of whom identified himself as a co-worker of the driver. He said the man is an employee of Kovatch Corporation, Nesquehoning, and had just left work at the end of his shift.

According to the co-worker, the injured is a McAdoo resident. He was heading westbound when, for reasons yet unclear, his vehicle veered off the road at which point it hit a snow-covered embankment and flipped.

"What saved him was that he ended up in the gully," said a motorist who was driving some distance behind the SUV. "There was a vehicle coming at him and it didn't have its headlights on," said the man.

There was a line of traffic at the time of the crash as a shift had ended at the nearby Kovatch plant.

The crash took place three miles east of the Hometown Five Points intersection at a straight run of road known as the Hauto Stretch.

There was intermittent and heavy road-level fog at the time.

Traffic was delayed in both directions.