UPDATE, noon: A HAMILTON district woman in her 50s was lucky to avoid serious injury after she lost control and her ute rolled near the top of the Coleraine hill.
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Hamilton police Sergeant Michael Vaughan said the woman was heading east along the Glenelg Highway about 8am when it was believed she over corrected in wet conditions.
"The old Toyota Hilux utility she was driving rolled down the hill 10 or 15 metres and was stopped by a tree," he said.
"She was not trapped and transport to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries including head pain."
Sergeant Vaughan said the Glenelg Highway was closed in both directions for two hours while the ute was recovered.
Traffic was detoured via Racecourse Road.
"The driver, a Hamilton district woman aged in her 50s, was very fortunate not to have been more seriously injured," he said.
Earlier: POLICE and emergency services are on the way to a single-vehicle accident on the Coleraine hill.
It was initially reported there was a middle aged woman beleived to be trapped, but she is now understood to be out of her car.
The car ran off the Glenelg Highway in wet conditions, down an embankment and into trees.
It's thought the car may be difficult to recover because of the location of the accident.
