E-scooter fall, car crash into fence keeps emergency services busy on Gold Coast
Emergency services were kept busy overnight attending to three significant vehicle incidents in just eight hours, including a car crashing into a fence and a woman injured in an e-scooter fall.
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Emergency services were kept busy overnight attending to three significant vehicle incidents in just eight hours.
A man was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition after a car crashed through a fence on Arundel’s Captain Cook Dr and Pine Ridge Rd around 2am.
In Coolangatta, a woman in her 60s suffered facial injuries after she fell off an e-scooter about 6.40pm.
She was taken to GCUH in a stable condition.
In a separate incident, a Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman said a stable patient with a leg injury was taken to GCUH after they were “caught between a fork-lift pallet stack” at a Yatala workplace about 10.50pm.
In Broadbeach, a man in his 20s was taken to GCUH with arm and shoulder injuries after a car and motorbike collided on TE Peters Drive about 8.50pm.
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