The Toowoomba-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew today airlifted a woman to hospital following a three-vehicle crash in Fernvale.
The LifeFlight helicopter was tasked at 2.05pm by Retrieval Services Queensland to a highway and landed on the road, which was closed to traffic by the Queensland Police Service (QPS).
The critical care LifeFlight doctor and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) flight paramedic worked with local QAS paramedics to treat a woman in her 60s for chest and wrist fractures.
She was airlifted to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
The crew was then tasked at 5.18pm to airlift a man in his 20s after a suspected snake bite.
It’s reported the man was changing a tyre on the side of the Gore Highway when he was bitten on the ankle and immediately called Triple Zero (000). QAS paramedics transported the patient to the Millmerran health centre.
The helicopter landed at the health centre and airlifted the patient to the Toowoomba LifeFlight base.
The patient was road transported by QAS paramedics to Toowoomba Hospital for further treatment.
