With all available officers called upon to attend, the police vehicle was travelling south on the Newell Highway with full lights and sirens activated.

The driver of a red Holden utility, a 19-year-old Parkes man, was stopped waiting to turn right into Clarke Street.

He was unaware of the approaching police vehicle behind him and commenced his turn into Clarke Street just as the police car started to overtake him. 

The vehicles collided, with the utility hitting one of the large poles on the industrial estate sign.

The police car continued into a tree, narrowly missing a large boulder on the passenger side.

Both police officers and the 19-year-old driver escaped injury.   

Lachlan Local Area Command officers are investigating the circumstances of the urgent job in Forbes which all available officers were responding to.

It turned out to be a hoax.