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

Police said Mark Stratchko of McAdoo was partially ejected and pinned beneath his vehicle, but freed by passing motorists who lifted the SUV.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 lying partially beneath the vehicle.Other motorists stopped to help, one of whom identified himself as a co-worker of the driver. He said Stratchko is an employee of Kovatch Corporation, Nesquehoning, and had just left work at the end of his shift.Police said Stratchko was driving westbound. The vehicle veered off the road then 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 3 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.Among the responders were Rush Township police, Hometown fire police, Hometown Fire Company and McAdoo EMS.