October 29, 2017
A truck driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries after a cattle truck overturned on the Burnett Highway north of Goomeri just before noon on Sunday.
The B-Double, loaded with almost 80 cattle, rolled on a stretch of the highway where multiple truck rollovers have occurred previously.
Some of the cattle were killed instantly in the crash while a dozen were euthanased on site.
The Queensland Ambulance Service took the truck driver to Murgon Hospital for treatment for lacerations.
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The Sunshine Coast-based RACQ LifeFlight helicopter flew to Manar Park motocross park near Boondooma on Saturday to help a Toowoomba man who suffered chest injuries in a bike crash.
The man, aged in his 40s, was injured when he lost control of his bike.
He was airlifted to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
