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Forensic crash unit investigating incident after woman left critical

A Toowoomba woman has been left critically injured following a serious crash on the Warrego Highway. Read more here.

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The Queensland Police Service is appealing to anyone with information or dashcam footage to come forward, after a serious crash left a woman critically injured.

Emergency service crews were called to the scene on the Warrego Highway, on Sunday at 2pm.

A 34-year-woman from Harristown was left with critical injuries as a result of the single-vehicle rollover.

Another woman also aged 34, who was driving a white Mitsubishi Triton was left in a stable condition and flown to the Princess Alexandra Hospital by the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue team.

Meanwhile, the passenger was left with critical injuries and was flown to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

A woman from Harristown has been left with critical injuries following a crash on the Warrego Highway near Plainlands. Picture: RACQ LifeFlight Rescue
A woman from Harristown has been left with critical injuries following a crash on the Warrego Highway near Plainlands. Picture: RACQ LifeFlight Rescue

If you have any information please contact Policelink on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 and quote the reference number QP2201956844.

A woman from Harristown has been left with critical injuries following a crash on the Warrego Highway near Plainlands. Picture: RACQ LifeFlight Rescue
A woman from Harristown has been left with critical injuries following a crash on the Warrego Highway near Plainlands. Picture: RACQ LifeFlight Rescue

Earlier

A woman has been flown to hospital in a critical condition after a “serious” single-vehicle rollover in the Lockyer Valley.

Emergency services were called on Sunday at 2pm to the incident on the Warrego Highway westbound at Plainland.

Reports suggested the car had crashed over the embankment along the highway.

While one woman was able to get out, another was trapped for as much as 20 minutes until QFES crews helped to free her.

The trapped woman, who is in her 30s, was flown to the Royal Brisbane Hospital by RACQ LifeFlight’s Brisbane-based chopper in a critical condition about two hours later.

She is understood to have suffered “significant” injuries.

The other woman was taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in a stable condition.

TEENAGE GIRL FLOWN TO HOSPITAL WITH ‘SERIOUS’ LEG INJURY

Meanwhile, a teenage girl who came off her dirt bike at a popular Southern Downs moto track has been flown to hospital with a serious injury.

The incident was reported on Sunday 12.10pm at the Gap Creek Moto track off the Cunningham Highway at Tregony.

Paramedics and fire crews assisted the girl, was then flown about 2.30pm to the Royal Brisbane Hospital with a significant leg injury.

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