Elderly woman flown to hospital with head, chest injury after car plunges 3 metres down ditch off Wide Bay Hwy in Kilkivan

An elderly woman has been flown to hospital in serious condition after her car ran off the road and flipped ‘end over end’ into a ditch.

An elderly woman has been flown to hospital after losing control of her car and plunging down a three metre ditch off the Wide Bay Highway.

The woman, aged in her 70s, was reportedly rounding a bend when her car ran off the road and flipped “end over end” into the ditch, a RACQ Lifeflight spokeswoman reported.

The woman, aged in her 70s, was driving directly behind her husband, who was travelling in a separate vehicle, on their way to a grandchild’s graduation event.

Emergency services responded to the incident in Kilkivan, near Fraser Street, just before 8.30am on Saturday.

A QAS spokeswoman said the woman suffered multiple injuries to her head and chest.

She was airlifted to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a serious but stable condition.