Man suffers injuries in Tilley Swamp buggy rollover

A man was flown to hospital with serious injuries after a buggy rollover in the state’s South-East, while a woman was also injured.

A 30-year-old man has been airlifted to Flinders Medical Centre after a buggy crash at Tilley Swamp in the state's southeast. Picture: 7NEWS

Two people have been taken to two separate hospitals after a buggy rollover on a private property in the state’s South-East.

A 30-year-old man suffered serious injuries in the incident reported just after 6.30pm Monday at a property at Tilley Swamp.

A 30-year-old man has been airlifted to Flinders Medical Centre after a buggy crash at Tilley Swamp in the state's South-East. Picture: 7NEWS

He was flown to Flinders Medical Centre in a serious condition where he remains.

It is understood he suffered hip and chest pain.

A woman, also in the buggy at the time, was taken to the local hospital with minor injuries.

It is the latest crash involving buggy or quad bikes in South Australia and comes after a plea from the state’s health system for people to take more care on the vehicles.

Officials in April this year pleaded with parents to be careful with kids around quad bikes after an alarming rise in injury arrivals at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital – and say “children under 16 should never ride a quad bike as a driver or passenger.”

WCH’s trauma service treated eight patients aged between two and 15 from December to March injured by adult and child sized quad bikes.

Injuries included fractures, lacerations and head injuries, with some requiring operations and a stay in hospital.

There were no such presentations for the same period a year ago, and the eight incidents in four months compares to eight incidents in total for the whole of 2022 and 12 in 2023.

The safety call follows three quad bike deaths in SA so far this year, all involving adult men.