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Emergency services called to car crash in Coominya

Emergency crews were called to free an elderly woman trapped inside her car after a crash west of Brisbane.

A woman is trapped after her car crashed into a pole west of Brisbane.
A woman is trapped after her car crashed into a pole west of Brisbane.

A woman has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash near Wivenhoe Dam.

Emergency crews were called Coominya on Saturday around 11.15am after a car collided with a pole on Willaura Drive.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the driver, a woman in her 70s, remained trapped inside the vehicle until around 12pm, when Queensland Fire Department crews were able to release her from the vehicle.

The woman sustained life-threatening head injuries from the accident and was taken to the Princess Alexandra hospital in Brisbane.

No other passengers were assessed at the scene.

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