Driver runs from injured after Vic crash

A woman has been left for dead trapped in a crashed car in Victoria as the driver fled.

The woman in her 40s was trapped for almost two hours while another woman was injured after the driver lost control on a road in Riverside and smashed into a tree at 11pm on Wednesday, authorities say.

The driver remains on the run while the trapped woman was airlifted to hospital with critical head and arm injuries, and the other woman transported to Horsham Hospital in a stable condition.