Vehicle rollover outside Tara, two people taken to Western Downs hospitals

Two people have been flown to hospital following a single vehicle rollover outside Wieambilla, near Tara. Here’s the full details.

Two female patients were transported to Toowoomba Hospital for suspected spinal injuries after a single-vehicle rollover in Wieambilla. Picture: LifeFlight.

Queensland Ambulance and Emergency Services has confirmed two women were flown to Toowoomba Hospital after a single-vehicle rollover on Chinchilla-Tara Road late last night.

Police, ambulance and firefighters worked to retrieve and treat four occupants inside a car that rolled off the road after barrelling into a number of trees on Thursday February 23.

A QAS spokeswoman said the crash happened at 10.42pm with two patients, a female teenager and a primary school aged male, treated for minor injuries and sent to Chinchilla Hospital for precautions.

However, two female patients with suspected spinal and neck injuries were transported by LifeFlight rescue helicopter in a stable condition from Tara Airport to Toowoomba Hospital.

A QFES spokeswoman said there were no entrapments and “we confirmed it (the car) was still upright but just off the road.”

EARLIER:

Emergency service crews were called to a single-vehicle rollover outside Tara in the Western Downs, late Thursday night.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said two people have been hospitalised, with one patient being transported to Chinchilla Hospital and another to Tara Hospital, both with non-life threatening injuries.

The crash occurred before 11pm on Tara Chinchilla Rd Montrose, near Wieambilla.

Fire emergency crews are also at the scene.