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Townsville traffic crash: Three injured in two crashes on Saturday

An Ingham man has suffered nasty injuries in a motorcycle accident on Sunday, emergency services said.

Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics near Ingham Hospital. Picture: Cameron Bates
Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics near Ingham Hospital. Picture: Cameron Bates

An Ingham man has suffered nasty injuries in a motorcycle accident on Sunday, emergency services said.

Queensland Ambulance Service confirmed that a man in his early 20s suffered injuries to his head, arms and pelvis in the accident.

A QAS spokeswoman said the man was driven to his home on Victoria Plantation Road where he was collected by paramedics.

The man was in a stable condition.

It is not known where the accident occurred.

Also in the Hinchinbrook, one stable patient was taken to Ingham Hospital after a single-vehicle crash on Forrest Beach Road at 1.35pm on Saturday.

The incident occurred on the same stretch of road where Ingham man David Tapp was killed in a two-vehicle crash on April 3.

A woman from Forrest Beach also suffered serious injuries.

EARLIER: Woman with facial injuries among multiple traffic crash victims

Three people have been injured in two traffic crashes in Townsville on Saturday night.

In the first incident on Angus Smith Drive in Douglas, a man in his 40s suffered arm and leg injuries after a motorcycle crash at 9.11pm.

Queensland Ambulance Service said the male patient was transported to Townsville University Hospital in a stable condition.

Two people were left injured following a two-vehicle crash on the corner of Charters Towers Road and Queens Road in Hermit Park at 6.02pm.

QAS said a woman with neck pain and a second woman with facial injuries were transported in stable conditions to TUH.

Paramedics also attended a house fire on Riverway Drive in Kelso at 3.30am on Sunday morning although two patients who were assessed on scene declined further treatment.

Queensland Police Service said the fire was non-suspicious.

Early Saturday morning, a male teenager suffered facial and head injuries after falling from the back of a moving vehicle on Adeline Loop in Julago at 2.28am.

QAS said he was in a stable condition when transported to TUH.

Originally published as Townsville traffic crash: Three injured in two crashes on Saturday

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