Image: RACQ LifeFlight
An elderly woman was airlifted by the Toowoomba-based RACQ LifeFlight yesterday after a fatal accident.
The woman was rescued by the helicopter service from a fatal single-vehicle accident on Esk/Hampton Road earlier yesterday.
The male passenger she was travelling with was pronounced deceased at the scene. It is believed the car hit a tree.
Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) paramedics and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) personnel freed the woman from the vehicle and treated her at the scene for multi-trauma injuries.
QAS paramedics then drove the woman six kilometres west to an open paddock where the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter could land.
The RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter - with a LifeFlight Critical Care doctor onboard- spent more than an hour at the scene, stabilising the patient before flying her to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.