Driver airlifted after head-on collision on Bruce Highway

A man has been flown to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital from near Bundaberg after sustaining multiple injuries in a serious crash near Childers.

The Bruce Highway is closed following a two vehicle crash at Apple Tree Creek.

The Bundaberg-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter crew has airlifted a man to hospital, after he was injured in a two-vehicle crash in the Bundaberg region on Monday morning.

It‘s believed the driver, aged in his 60s, had been travelling south when two cars collided near Apple Tree Creek, just north of Childers.

The rescue chopper was called into action just after 10:30am.

The RACQ LifeFlight Rescue chopper pilot landed the aircraft on a stretch of road, near the scene of the crash, where the aeromedical team met with local Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics treated the patient.

The motorist was treated for multiple injuries, including to his chest.

He was flown to Royal Brisbane and Women‘s Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

A Queensland Police Service spokesperson said police were called to the scene about 10.40am, after reports of two vehicles colliding on the northbound lanes of the Bruce Highway 5km from Apple Tree Creek.

A man had to be extricated from a vehicle by emergency services before he was airlifted to Royal Brisbane Hospital.

A woman was taken by road to Bundaberg Hospital for treatment.

The highway was blocked for a few hours while emergency services attended to the crash.

FCU will investigate the cause of the crash.