UPDATE, Friday, 9.59am:
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A The Royal Melbourne Hospital spokeswoman said the condition of the 41-year-old driver from Dennington involved in a single vehicle crash on Wednesday, April 19, has been downgraded from critical to serious.
UPDATE, Thursday, 9.11am:
An eye witness has described a black utility spearing off the Princes Highway and snapping a concrete power pole outside Deakin University's Warrnambool campus.
The witness, who did not want to be named, said he was heading west into Warrnambool from Allansford when he saw the single-vehicle collision about 10.15am Wednesday.
He said the black utility was in the left-hand approaching Sherwood Park when it headed left off the dual highway and collided with the concrete power pole.
"The pole snapped off at the base, just snapped clean off," the stunned witness said.
"The ute then rolled at least five times. The driver suffered severe injuries. He was pretty messed up. I was surprised he was alive."
The witness was on his car fitted phone at the time to a work colleague, and requested she immediately contact emergency services.
The 41-year-old driver of the black utility, who is originally from South Australia but has been living at Dennington, suffered major pelvic, abdominal and chest injuries.
A Royal Melbourne Hospital spokesperson said on Thursday morning that the driver remained in a critical condition.
Wednesday morning: A male motorist is being flown to a Melbourne hospital in a serious condition after he hit a power pole in Warrnambool on Wednesday morning.
The incident happened at Sherwood Park shortly after 10.15am on April 19.
South-west police road safety adviser Acting Senior Sergeant Craig Merry said the man's utility came off the Princes Highway and hit a power pole.
"(There was a) male occupant with serious injuries," Acting Senior Sergeant Merry told The Standard.
"He is being transported to Melbourne by helicopter."
An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said a man was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital by air ambulance in a serious condition.
She said he had suffered upper and lower body injuries.
Acting Senior Sergeant Merry said police were still investigating the cause of the crash and the direction the man was travelling in.
He said there was at least one person who witnessed the incident.
"We ask anyone else that has dashcam (footage), who may have observed the collision to contact either Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or the Warrnambool police station on 5560 1333," the officer said.
Detours were not in place but traffic was slowed as Powercor employees and emergency services attended the scene.
A Powercor spokeswoman said crews were still on site at noon.
She said they were assessing the damage and determining what work would need to occur.
"While power remains on in the local area, at some stage we may need to turn off electricity to customers to allow our crews to safely conduct emergency work," she said.
"If power is affected, we will keep customers updated through text messages, our outage map or our contact centre."
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