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Young boy fighting for life after crash in ditch on Brisbane Valley Highway at Wivenhoe Hill

A young child is fighting for life after a serious crash west of Brisbane overnight.

A young boy is fighting for life after a car crashed into a ditch on the Brisbane Valley Highway.
A young boy is fighting for life after a car crashed into a ditch on the Brisbane Valley Highway.

A child remains in a critical condition after a car swerved off the road and into a ditch west of Brisbane on Saturday night.

The child was flown to the Queensland Children’s Hospital with critical head injuries and remains in a critical but stable condition.

Emergency services were called to Wivenhoe Hill on the Brisbane Valley Highway at about 11pm where a vehicle reportedly crashed into a ditch.

Two patients, one man in his 30s and an 8-year-old boy were flown to hospital following the crash.

The man was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with non-life threatening leg injuries

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services said no one was trapped.

Queensland Police and the forensic crash unit are investigating the circumstances into the crash.

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