Around 2.15 am the vehicle was travelling east in Main Street when it apparently went out of control on the curve at the intersection of Hassans Walls Road.

The car collided with a concrete telegraph pole then mounted the footpath before demolishing a large section of a brick fence in front of the Lynton Court flats.

Even the impact with the solid fence failed to halt the car’s progress and it then veered back onto the road to overturn an unknown number of times before coming to rest upside down.

Residents in the flats who were awakened by what they thought was an earthquake quickly called emergency services.

Ambulance, police and fire brigade units rushed to the scene.

A 31 year old Wentworth Falls man was taken to Lithgow Hospital suffering head and facial injuries and fractures.

He was later transferred for specialist attention at Nepean Hospital.

A 40 year old Lithgow man escaped with relatively minor injuries and was also taken to Lithgow Hospital.

Amazingly the third occupant, an 18 year old Lithgow girl, was able to scramble shaken but unhurt from the tangled wreck.

Fire Brigade members cleared spilled fuel and oil from the roadway before Main Street was re-opened around 3.30 am.

Police inquiries into the accident are continuing with police studying security TV footage of the scene.