Man badly hurt in wheelie bin incident at northern beaches footy ground Weldon Oval
A MAN suffered a serious head injury and had to be flown to hospital after falling off a wheelie bin he was riding down steps in a grandstand at a northern beaches Australian Rules oval.
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A MAN suffered a serious head injury and had to be flown to hospital after falling off a wheelie bin he was riding down a grandstand at a northern beaches Australian Rules oval.
The man, 25, was knocked unconscious after falling about three metres on to concrete during end of season celebrations at a clubhouse in Weldon Oval, Curl Curl on Saturday afternoon.
Police said the injured man’s companions told Ambulance paramedics that he had consumed about 10 cans of beer before the incident, which occured just before 3.30pm.
Witnesses told police the man, from Dee Why, was riding a council wheelie bin down the grandstand steps when he lost control and struck his head on a concrete step.
He was knocked unconscious.
“Paramedics arrived on scene and were unable to rouse him to
consciousness,” a police spokesman said.
Paramedics stabilised the man on the grandstand steps while thy called for a doctor to be flown in on the Ambulance helicopter.
As well as the chopper three Ambulance crews were called to the scene.
“The man suffered an isolated head injury,” an Ambulance spokesman said. “Paramedics also took spinal injury precautions before he was flown to Royal North Shore Hospital in a serious condition.”
