Man bitten by snake, teenager suffers leg injury after motorcycle crash in South West Qld

Two separate incidents on private properties across the southwest kept paramedics busy on Monday night. DETAILS.

Paramedics were kept busy across the southwest overnight with reports of a snakebite and a motorcycle crash.

The increasingly hot and muggy weather has enticed more than thunderstorms out of the works, as paramedics across the state respond to reports of snakebites.

Paramedics were called to a private property on Tenomby Rd, outside Goondiwindi on Monday evening to a report a man had suffered a bite from a snake.

QAS spokesman said the male patient had sustained a snakebite to his lower leg and was taken to Goondiwindi Hospital in a stable condition just before 7pm.

On Sunday morning paramedics attended a home in Pittsworth, southwest of Toowoomba where a teenage boy was reportedly bitten by a snake.

Further west a teenage boy was taken to hospital after falling from a motorcycle on a private property off the Landsborough Highway, near Tambo just before 6.30pm.

The QAS spokesman said paramedics transported the male teenage patient, who suffered a leg laceration, to Blackall Hospital in stable condition.