Teen suffers serious head injury after buggy rolls

LifeFlight paramedics treated a young man after a buggy rolled on private property near Toowoomba, before flying to help a man who suffered a nasty snake bite while bushwalking in a remote corner of the state.

A male in his late teens suffered a serious head injury after a buggy rolled on private property at Buaraba, in the Lockyer Valley, about 1pm on Sunday, October 1, 2023.

A male aged in his late teens was flown to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in a serious condition after a buggy rolled on private property.

Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics were called to the Lockyer Valley property about 1pm on Sunday where they located the teen.

They treated him for a serious head injury, which included intubation, before he was loaded on to a LifeFlight rescue chopper and flown to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in a stable condition.

About three hours later emergency services were alerted to a man aged in his 50s who was bitten by a snake on a remote walking track in the Sundown National Park, south west of Stanthorpe.

The man was located on a walking track about one kilometre from the camping ground.

Due to the difficulty accessing the site, the Toowoomba-based LifeFlight Surat Gas Aeromedical Service helicopter crew was called in to winch a man to safety.

A LifeFlight spokesperson said the snake had bitten “deeply” into the man’s leg and he was showing snake bite symptoms.

The man was flown to Toowoomba Hospital for further treatment.

Later on Sunday evening, about 11.44pm, a man aged in his 40s suffered a minor shoulder injury when he fell off a bicycle on David Street in Rockville.

QAS paramedics treated the man at the scene before taking him to the Toowoomba Hospital.