(Photo: RACQ LifeFlight)
September 19, 2017
Two riders were injured in separate falls from horses at the weekend.
The Sunshine Coast-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter was called to Widgee on Sunday to assist a man aged in his 60s who was badly injured when the horse he had been riding fell on top of him.
The rider had been performing in an event when he was injured.
He was treated on the scene initially by the ambulance paramedics until the LifeFlight helicopter arrived at a nearby oval.
The RACQ LifeFlight Aeromedical team of a critical care doctor and paramedic assisted the QAS in treating the patient for numerous injuries before he was airlifted to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
In the second accident, the helicopter flew back to Curra, north of the Wide Bay Highway, after a man aged in his mid-40s suffered a broken leg after falling from his horse while riding on his property.
He was airlifted to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
