October 5, 2015
A man has been flown to hospital with non life-threatening injuries after a single vehicle crash on the New England Highway on Monday night.
The vehicle ran off the road and overturned about 5:45pm, five kilometres west of Yarraman.
Two people were in the vehicle and both reportedly suffered fractures.
Nanango ambulance attended the scene. One patient was transported to Yarraman Oval where he was transferred to the Rescue 500 helicopter for an airlift to Brisbane about 8:30pm.
The other patient was transferred to Kingaroy Hospital.
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Kingaroy police have been kept busy investigating alleged thefts over the past few days.
Police were called to a hairdressing salon in Kingaroy Street on Thursday after a woman reported her handbag had been stolen.
A police patrol looking for this person, later noticed two men standing in the Pathway 2 Hope garage in King Street where the charity stores its goods.
A 22-year-old man has been charged with entering premises with intent.
On Friday morning, an overnight break-in at the South Burnett Private Hospital building was reported to police; at this stage it is not believed anything was taken.
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A man was arrested in Adermann Park in Kingaroy about 3:45pm on Friday after he allegedly refused to give police his name and address.
Police say they initially stopped the man because he was riding an unregistered motorbike.
The man allegedly cited Maritime Law as his reason for failing to provide particulars.
He has been held in custody.
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At 3:00pm on Thursday, a woman was arrested in Kingaroy on a warrant for failing to appear in court.
Just before midnight on Thursday, a man and a woman were arrested outside a Kingaroy hotel and taken to the watchhouse. A 21-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man have both been charged with obstructing police.
In a separate incident, a 37-year-old woman was arrested at 8:30pm on Friday in Youngman Street, Kingaroy, for being a public nuisance. Police will allege she was extremely intoxicated.
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A 17-year-old youth has been charged with wilful damage following a complaint from a 33-year-old woman living in Campbell Street, Kingaroy.
The woman told police she had found mud, cigarette butts, garbage and food strewn inside her vehicle, which was parked in her driveway on Friday evening.
The youth was located in Glendon Street on Sunday.
He will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on October 26.
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Police are investigating are graffiti which was reported by residents living in Hillview Parade, Kingaroy on Thursday morning.
Graffiti was allegedly scrawled on fences, walls and footpaths in the area.
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RACQ CareFlight’s Sunshine Coast crew was called to Motocross Mountain, near Cooyar, on Sunday afternoon to help a young boy with a broken arm.
The team airlifted the boy to the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.
RACQ CareFlight helicopters attended six motocross incidents across Queensland over the weekend.
The State Government’s Rescue 500 helicopter flew to Manar Park, near Boondooma, on Friday night to transport an injured child to the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.
It attended a total two motocross-related accidents in south-east Queensland at the weekend.
