TOPSHAM (AP) — Police say a Lewiston man spent about three hours trapped in a gully after crashing his car, eventually crawling injured and bleeding to the roadside where he was spotted by an off-duty officer.

Sgt. Robert Ramsay says 27-year-old Sadak Kariye was driving on Route 196 early Sunday morning when he crashed.

The car went so far off the road and so deep in the gully that it could not be seen.

An off-duty Lisbon officer heading home after her shift found Kariye bleeding by the roadside at about 7 a.m. He was taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston with injuries not considered life threatening.

Ramsay says Kariye may have fallen asleep. There were no signs of alcohol at the scene and the crash occurred before it started snowing.