A red P-plate driver has been taken to the hospital after a single-vehicle rollover at a busy Mona Vale intersection yesterday afternoon.
Emergency services were called to the corner of Barrenjoey Road and Darley Street just before 2:45pm on Tuesday, 3 March, after a grey 2014 Toyota Prado overturned.
The vehicle had been travelling south along Barrenjoey Road when it failed to navigate the right-hand turn into Darley Street. The four-wheel drive struck a traffic light with its passenger side before rolling onto its driver side in the northbound lanes.
While initial reports suggested the male driver, believed to be in his late teens, was trapped inside the vehicle, he managed to climb out on his own before emergency crews arrived. He sustained injuries to his right arm, which appeared to have been caught during the rollover.
Paramedics from NSW Ambulance, including an extended care paramedic from Mona Vale Ambulance Station, treated the young man at the scene. Medical staff suspected a fracture to his right hand and applied a splint before transporting him to Northern Beaches Hospital in a stable condition shortly before 3:30pm.
The crash caused significant disruption to one of the Northern Beaches’ busiest thoroughfares. The collision knocked out traffic signals at the intersection, forcing police officers from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command to manually direct vehicles through the junction.
Two northbound lanes were blocked by the overturned vehicle, along with the right-turn lane into Darley Street for southbound traffic. Congestion quickly built up in both directions, with southbound queues extending back past Bassett Street and northbound traffic banked up past Mona Vale Hospital towards Warriewood.
Specialist rescue firefighters from Narrabeen Station worked to stabilise the vehicle and clear debris from the roadway. Crews also used absorbent materials to clean up fluid and oil spills from the damaged vehicle and cordoned off the traffic signal with exclusion tape due to exposed live wiring.
Officers from Northern Beaches Police Area Command spoke with the driver and witnesses to determine the circumstances surrounding the crash.
A tow truck righted the vehicle and removed it from the intersection shortly before 3:30pm, though police were required to continue directing traffic through the afternoon while the damaged signals remained out of service.
Published 3-March-2026
