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Toowoomba crash: Helicopter airlifts man in serious condition

A man is in a serious condition following a horror single-vehicle crash overnight, an incident that also left a teenager injured.

A man has been flown to hospital after the car he was driving in crashed down an embankment on a rural road outside Toowoomba.

Paramedics were called to the scene of the Clontarf crash, on Millmerran Inglewood and Blackwell Roads, at 7.53pm Sunday.

The driver, a male in his 20s, suffered multiple injuries in the crash.

A man was flown to Toowoomba Hospital following a crash on Sunday, April 23.
A man was flown to Toowoomba Hospital following a crash on Sunday, April 23.

An RACQ LifeFlight helicopter was called to the scene at 8.30pm.

The LifeFlight aeromedical team and Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics treated the man for spinal injuries.

He was later transported to Toowoomba Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

A passenger in his late teens was treated on-scene by QAS paramedics for arm injuries.

He was also later transported to Toowoomba Hospital.

In an unrelated crash, a woman was taken to hospital in a stable condition after she crashed into a power pole.

The crash occurred on Cawdor Road and the New England Highway at 4.08am Monday.

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