April 6, 2018
An elderly woman had to be cut free from the wreckage of an overturned dual cab ute after a crash on the Burnett Highway at Wyalla, north of Nanango, on Friday morning.
RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter landed on the highway to assist paramedics at the scene.
The woman, aged in her 70s, was then airlifted to Toowoomba Hospital in a serious but stable condition with suspected back, pelvic, leg and foot injuries.
The single-vehicle crash occurred before 9:30am, just south of the intersection with Schumacher Gap Road.
QFES, ambulance paramedics and police worked to free the woman from vehicle.
She was stabilised at the site and then flown out about noon.
Two adults and two children in the vehicle were taken by road ambulance to Nanango Hospital.
Three suffered abrasions and lacerations, while the fourth had arm and suspected abdominal injuries.
UPDATED April 9: Nanango Police have advised that injuries were non life-threatening.
