Finch Hatton quad bike rollover: Patient critical after flip on farm

A small country town already reeling as police investigate a possible homicide is again on tenterhooks after six primary-school aged children were injured, one critically, from a quad bike flip.

A nine-year-old girl was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and five other children suffered varying injuries after a buggy rollover on a rural Queensland property while on school holidays.

An all-terrain vehicle was carrying all six children when it crashed and rolled after striking an embankment in the Pioneer Valley, west of Mackay.

Paramedics took six children to hospital after what was initially reported as a buggy flipping on a private property.

It comes less than a month after five teens were involved in a quad bike collision with car at Armstrong Beach.

Queensland Ambulance Service was called about 3.30pm on Friday and it is understood paramedics, including critical care specialists, met a private vehicle on Mackay-Eungella Road to assess the patients.

A QAS spokeswoman said officers assessed six children and then took them to Mackay Base Hospital in two separate vehicles.

The injured children included a nine-year-old girl in a critical condition with head injuries, a six-year-old boy with abdominal injuries in a stable condition and a four-year-old girl also in a stable condition.

The township of Finch Hatton as seen from the air. Picture: Heidi Petith

The spokeswoman said all six children were ultimately taken to hospital including two stable teenage girls with minor abrasions, and another young girl with minor abrasions, also stable.

The Forensic Crash Unit attended the incident at Finch Hatton off Thurgoods Road and are now investigating the crash.

It is understood the children had been on an ATV style quad bike when the incident occurred.

Others on the property had called Triple 0 while beginning to drive them to hospital and ambulance officers met them en route.

All children are believed to now be in a stable condition.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said all children were expected to require hospitalisation.

Police investigations are ongoing.

Suzanne Scott at Sulinda Trading.

It sadly ends a tragic, turbulent week for Finch Hatton where police have spent all week on a homicide investigation after a bizarre series of events ended in the death of a 69-year-old woman.

Suzanne Ruth Scott died on July 4 after an incident at her Boulder Rd home.

Her best friend Lyn Andersen described her as an “awesome lady” with a “big heart”.