Sunshine Coast breaking news: Tewantin e-scooter crash

Paramedics have taken a teenage boy to hospital, along with attending a separate crash and horse fall in the Sunshine Coast region. DETAILS.

A woman in her 60s was being looked over by paramedics following a two-vehicle crash on Aerodrome Rd in Maroochydore. Picture: Heidi Petith

Paramedics have taken a teenage boy to hospital after he suffered facial injuries in an e-scooter crash.

The boy suffered facial injuries after the crash at Gumnut Court, Tewantin, at 8.26pm Friday.

He was taken to Nambour Hospital in a stable condition.

A man in his 30s also suffered facial injuries and neck pain from a single-car crash on the corner of Paulger Road and Eumundi Kenilworth Road, Kenilworth, at 8.10pm Friday.

He was rushed to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.

At Pomona, a woman in her 40s suffered a shoulder injury after falling off a horse at a private property at 5.59pm Friday.

She was taken to Nambour Hospital, also in a stable condition.

Paramedics also attended a fire in a park on Petrie Road, Nambour, at 6.42pm.

There were no patients to treat.

Chopper rushes to motorcycle crash, traffic chaos on major road

A lane on a major Sunshine Coast road closed after three vehicles collided causing peak-hour traffic chaos and a rescue helicopter has been called to a motorcycle crash in the hinterland.

The peak-hour three-car crash occurred on the Sunshine Coast Mwy in Pacific Paradise in the right-hand southbound lane about 2.50pm on Thursday.

A Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman said no one was taken to hospital.

Paramedics had initially been called to look over two patients among the people involved in the crash.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said the traffic control that was in place was cleared about 3.30pm.

A helicopter was also called to fly a motorcyclist to hospital after they smashed into a tree on the Sunshine Coast.

The crash occurred on Old Gympie Rd near the intersection at Thompson Rd at Beerwah about 2pm on Friday.

An ambulance spokeswoman said a man, in his 20s, had crashed into a tree while riding the motorcycle.

He suffered significant injuries to his leg with paramedics treating the man on scene.

A helicopter was tasked to take the patient to hospital.

The two afternoon crashes come after firefighters cut a person from a car in a crash on a busy Sunshine Coast road.

Emergency services were called about 10.40am to a two-vehicle crash on Aerodrome Rd in Maroochydore.

A Queensland Fire Department spokesman said firefighter crews were called to the scene and used their cutting gear to free someone from one of the vehicles.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said a woman in her 60s was being looked over by paramedics and had minor injuries.

She was later taken to hospital in a stable condition.

Originally published as Sunshine Coast breaking news: Tewantin e-scooter crash