A mother and child escaped a house fire unharmed Thursday morning, but authorities say if it weren’t for the smoke alarms the incident could have ended much worse.
Emergency services were called to Collins Ln in Kin Kora at 12.30am after reports a unit was on fire. Authorities believe the fire started in the kitchen.
Forensic crash investigators are trying to piece together how a station wagon crashed on a rural Central Queensland road on Wednesday afternoon, seriously injuring an elderly couple.
A couple in their 70s were airlifted separately to Rockhampton Hospital Wednesday afternoon after their vehicle crashed on Baralaba Rannes Road at Kokotungo.
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Forensic crash investigators are trying to piece together how a station wagon crashed on a rural Central Queensland road on Wednesday afternoon, seriously injuring an elderly couple.
A couple in their 70s were airlifted separately to Rockhampton Hospital Wednesday afternoon after their vehicle crashed on Baralaba Rannes Road at Kokotungo.
Officers from the Forensic Crash Unit are now appealing for witnesses and dashcam vision to help them get to the bottom of the incident.
Initial investigations revealed the couple was travelling east on Baralaba Rannes Road in a white 2019 Hyundai Kona station wagon when it left the roadway at the intersection with Baileys Road about 3.40pm.
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UPDATE 7PM: Two people have been taken to hospital after a single vehicle rollover in the Banana Shire on Wednesday afternoon.
Emergency services crews were called to the scene of the crash at Kokotungo just before 4pm.
At 7pm, a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said the injured patients, a man and a woman both in their 70s, were taken to hospital.
He said the woman had suffered chest injuries and the extent of the man’s injuries were unknown.
The RACQ Capricorn Helicopter Rescue Service said the vehicle had left the road and rolled numerous times.
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Subscriber only Wednesday afternoon, RACQ Capricorn Rescue was tasked by Queensland Health to attend a single vehicle roll over on the Baralaba Rannes Road about 15 kilometres to the east of Baralaba. Two patients in their 70s were trapped in their vehicle after it left the road and drove into a culvert, consequently flipping the vehicle onto it s roof. A woman was extricated from the vehicle and flown to Rockhampton hospital in a stable condition. Her partner was more difficult to access in the damaged vehicle and was extricated not long after. He was taken to Baralaba airfield and picked up by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and flown to Rockhampton in a stable condition.