Paramedics rush to Dysart-Middlemount Rd after reports of serious injuries
A rescue crew is tending to two patients ‘significantly’ injured in a multi-vehicle crash requiring a helicopter to be called to a Bowen Basin town southwest of Mackay. LATEST
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A rescue crew is tending to two patients seriously injured in a multi-vehicle crash in the Bowen Basin southwest of Mackay.
The RACQ CapRescue helicopter rushed to the scene along Dysart-Middlemount Rd near Centenary Dr in Middlemount just after 11am.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said medical staff were as of 1.15pm working to ready patients for possible air transport to hospital.
She said there were at least two vehicles involved in the crash with two people from one vehicle uninjured.
The spokeswoman said there was a patient with back and neck injuries as well as a man with “significant” leg and arm injuries, but all injuries were non-life threatening.
A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said the road would remain closed until the helicopter had departed and was unable to give an estimate as to when that would be with multiple crews at the scene.
It is unknown what type of vehicles were involved in the crash.
Earlier, firefighters had worked to free a patient who was trapped inside a vehicle.
Originally published as Paramedics rush to Dysart-Middlemount Rd after reports of serious injuries
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