Emergency services called to spate of Far North incidents
Emergency services have been called to spate of incidents in the past 24-hours including a ute into a hotel on the Tablelands, a car into the ocean and multiple road crashes on Saturday morning.
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Emergency services have been called to spate of incidents in the past 24-hours, including a ute into a hotel on the Tablelands, a car into the ocean in Cairns and multiple road crashes on Saturday morning.
Two separate crashes north of Cairns at Wangetti and Wonga Beach have caused early morning disruptions for weekend motorists.
At 6.57am emergency services were called to a crash on Mossman Daintree Road just north of the Marlin Dr turn off to Wonga Beach. One Queensland Fire Service vehicle was assigned to the incident involving a ute that had flipped onto its roof.
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Queensland Ambulance Service stated a woman of unknown age was taken to Mossman Hospital with facial lacerations in a stable condition.
Later at 8.38am a single vehicle crash at Wangetti just north of Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures shut down both lanes of the Captain Cook Highway.
A Queensland Ambulance Service said paramedics were initially called to the crash but the job was cancelled after the patient declined transport to hospital.
Queensland Traffic has reported both north and south lanes are affected and delays are expected.
The morning incidents follow the crashing of dual cab ute into the Ant Hill Hotel on Byrnes St Mareeba at 3.38am.
Paramedics, fire fighters and police attended the scene.
“Police were on scene and the driver didn’t show any indication of intoxication,” a police spokesman said.
While at Yorkeys Knob on Friday afternoon an SUV was spotted in the sea after being driven across the sand into the ocean.
According to the Queensland Police stolen car portal the Mercedes SUV has not been reported as stolen.
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