March 18, 2016
A 25-year-old woman was flown to the PA Hospital in Brisbane by the RACQ CareFlight helicopter in a serious but stable condition after a head-on collision on the Memerambi-Gordonbrook Road on Friday afternoon.
The woman was a passenger in one of two vehicles which collided near the intersection with Ellwoods Road at Gordonbrook about 3:50pm.
She suffered head, arm and leg injuries in the crash.
The Toowoomba-based RACQ CareFlight helicopter was despatched to the scene about 4:30pm.
The male driver of the vehicle was treated by the CareFlight crew and then taken by road ambulance to Kingaroy Hospital with minor injuries, including neck pain.
A second woman in the collision was also taken by road ambulance to Kingaroy Hospital. She had suspected spinal injuries and was later airlifted to Brisbane by the Rescue 500 helicopter.
I have lost all respect for this paper now, I know the injured personally, And I don’t believe that is is fair or morally justified for you to be posting not only images of the accident scene, but video. The family of the injured are quite traumatized already and all this does is pour salt in their wounds.
I am sorry that you have been personally affected by this crash, however there is nothing unusual about any media organisation covering an incident such as this. The photographs and video were supplied to us by RACQ CareFlight, the people who helped your friend.
Emergency services usually support the media running stories like this because they can do a lot of good. They highlight the magnificent job done by police, SES, firies and ambos at traumatic events. They can highlight dangerous roads or intersections.
They also remind readers to take extra care and not take risks on the roads. And they can help organisations such as CareFlight raise money so they continue saving lives.
We pray that everyone involved in this incident makes a rapid recovery.
Strewth, I am glad I didn’t go home that way after I saw you at Council Office. I still don’t understand how the accident happened.