Elderly Sydney woman freed from booth

An elderly volunteer has been rescued from a hospital information booth in Sydney's south after a car ploughed into it.

The woman, believed to be in her 70s, was trapped in the booth at St George Hospital at Kogarah for about an hour on Tuesday morning.

A car, carrying two people, crashed into the booth around 11am and firefighters worked to free the elderly woman by midday.

She is now a patient at the hospital in a stable condition.

One person from the car was also taken to hospital with minor injuries.