Sunshine Coast crashes: Tinbeerwah motorcyclist in serious condition
Three people are in a Sunshine Coast hospital following three separate crashes while in another incident a battery is being blamed as the cause of a caravan fire.
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A man has been rushed to a Sunshine Coast hospital following a serious motorbike crash, in one of three separate crashes that left three people injured.
Critical care paramedics took a man in his 50s in a serious condition with a significant leg injury to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital following the crash that occurred on a private property on Kingsgate Dr in Tinbeerwah about 6.40pm yesterday, November 18.
He remains in the hospital in a stable condition this morning, November 19.
It was one of several crashes and other incidents Sunshine Coast emergency services attended overnight.
A teenager was taken to the same hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries after a car and motorbike crash on the corner of Waigani St and Morobe Cres in Bli Bli about 6.40pm yesterday.
Emergency services were also called to a two-car crash in Alexandra Headland at the corner of Kawana St and Pacific Tce about 7.20pm.
A woman, in her 50s, was taken by paramedics to the same Sunshine Coast hospital in a stable condition with a leg injury.
Firefighters who were called to the incident made the scene safe.
In another incident in Landsborough, it was the quick action of neighbours that helped quickly extinguish a caravan fire.
Emergency services were called to Plantation Crt about 8.30pm with firefighters reporting that neighbours had extinguished the blaze.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Service spokesman said there were no visible flames by the time firefighters arrived.
They inspected the caravan and made the scene safe, he said.
A Queensland Police Service spokesman said an initial investigation showed that a small battery was letting off smoke in the caravan.
It was being treated as non-suspicious at this stage, he said.
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