Paramedics kept busy as extra traffic leads to more crashes

IT WAS a trying time for emergency services at the weekend with multiple callouts to road traffic crashes.

Paramedics responded to multiple crashes at the weekend.

A HIGH volume of traffic returned to regional roads with COVID-19 restrictions easing at the weekend.

It led to a busy time for emergency services as they responded to several crashes across the region.

A teenage girl needed firefighters to help her escape a wrecked car after it rolled on Bridge St in Mt Lofty, about 4.50pm, on Saturday.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said three people were involved in the single vehicle crash.

Two were uninjured while the teenager required a trip to the Toowoomba Hospital after suffering minor neck and leg injuries.

Earlier a woman's car  collided with a tree on the New England Highway, near Clifton, about 6am on Saturday.

Paramedics attended the crash, but the woman was uninjured.

Yesterday a car and a motorbike collided on Cooyar-Rangemore Rd, west of Cooyar, about 8.45am.  

A man and a woman, both aged in the fifties and riding together on the motorbike, ended up in Toowoomba Hospital.

The QAS spokesman said both people suffered minor leg injuries.

Finally, paramedics transport a woman to Warwick Hospital yesterday after a collision on Leyburn-Cunningham Rd, at Pratten.

The crash occurred about 6.30am.

It was reported as a single vehicle crash into a tree.

Paramedics treated the woman, aged in her 20s, for minor leg and pelvic injuries.

They transported the woman in a stable condition to Warwick Hospital.

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