Police will prepare a report for the Coroner after a fatal single-vehicle crash at Mayfield overnight.

About 5.30am (Sunday 28 August 2016), emergency services were called to Industrial Drive near the intersection with the Pacific Highway after reports of a single vehicle crash.

Officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended the location.

They located a black Mitsubishi Magna which appears to have travelled to the wrong side of the road struck a pole, flipped onto its roof and then struck a tree.

A woman, apparently the only occupant of the Magna, appears to have been ejected from the vehicle and was found deceased nearby.

Investigators believe that the crash may have occurred some hours prior to the discovery of the vehicle this morning.

They are urging anyone that might have travelled past the intersection with information about the crash to come forward.

One lane has been closed to eastbound traffic on Industrial Road as police investigate the incident.