August 2, 2015
An injured motorbike rider was airlifted from Manar Park motocross park, near Boondooma, on Sunday morning.
The Bundaberg-based helicopter was called to the park just before 9:30am.
A rider in his 40s had come off his bike the night before and had a suspected fracture to his right arm, injuries to his hip and wrist.
The patient was treated on scene by the QAS before being flown by the RACQ CareFlight helicopter to Bundaberg.
He travelled in a stable condition.
The man was the third motorcycle rider transferred to hospital by CareFlight in two days.
Also, on Sunday morning, the Toowoomba-based helicopter attended a dirt bike endurance event west of Chinchilla where a man in his 20s had come off his bike and had a suspected broken leg. He was flown to the Toowoomba Hospital in a stable condition.
On Saturday, a man aged in his 30s was airlifted from the same event to hospital with a badly broken upper right arm.
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The RACQ CareFlight Bear made a special appearance at the Heritage Bank’s grants day in Nanango on Sunday to thank the local community for its support for the organisation.
RACQ CareFlight spokesperson Angela Miles said the South Burnett was the busiest region in Queensland for the organisation.
Last year, about 170 missions were flown in the South Burnett, ie more than $2 million worth of mission work.
And from July 1, flights could come directly from Brisbane to the South Burnett with specialist medical staff on board, instead of flying first to Brisbane to pick them up following the opening of a CareFlight base there.
