May 25, 2016
An elderly man has been flown to hospital after a dramatic rescue on the Brisbane Valley Highway on Wednesday afternoon.
The man’s vehicle ended up perched above a shallow creek after it left the highway at Wanora, just south of Fernvale, and crashed beside a bridge.
Police, who were called to the scene at 2:30pm, don’t believe there were any other vehicles involved in the incident so it is unknown at this stage why the car left the highway.
Firefighters worked to free the trapped man, aged 70, from the wreckage.
They secured the vehicle to stop it sliding any further before cutting the roof off the sedan.
Ambulance paramedics tended to the man while firefighters worked to free him.
The injured man was then placed on a stretcher and taken by road ambulance a short distance to the Rescue 500 helicopter which had landed on the highway.
A police spokesman said the man was flown to Royal Brisbane Hospital in a stable condition with non-life threatening injuries.
The Brisbane Valley Highway was closed while the rescue took place.
