Emergency services called to car crash in Coominya

Emergency crews were called to free an elderly woman trapped inside her car after a crash west of Brisbane.

A woman is trapped after her car crashed into a pole west of Brisbane.

A woman has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash near Wivenhoe Dam.

Emergency crews were called Coominya on Saturday around 11.15am after a car collided with a pole on Willaura Drive.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the driver, a woman in her 70s, remained trapped inside the vehicle until around 12pm, when Queensland Fire Department crews were able to release her from the vehicle.

The woman sustained life-threatening head injuries from the accident and was taken to the Princess Alexandra hospital in Brisbane.

No other passengers were assessed at the scene.

Originally published as Emergency services called to car crash in Coominya