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Man, 70, crashes through fence into construction site

An elderly man was transported to hospital after his car smashed through a fence and into a construction site.

A man was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a chest injury following a crash at Tewantin this morning.
A man was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a chest injury following a crash at Tewantin this morning.

AN elderly man was transported to hospital after his car smashed through a fence and into a construction site.

Paramedics were called after 9am to the single vehicle crash involving the white four-wheel-drive at Hilton Tce and Ernest St, Noosaville.

A man was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a chest injury following a crash at Tewantin this morning.
A man was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a chest injury following a crash at Tewantin this morning.

A Queensland Ambulance spokesman said the man, in his 70s, drove through the fence and onto the site where the vehicle came to a stop on top of a dirt pile.

A man was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a chest injury following a crash at Tewantin this morning.
A man was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with a chest injury following a crash at Tewantin this morning.

The spokesman said the man suffered a chest injury but was not life-threatening and he was transported stable to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

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