IT WAS a big weekend for RACQ CareFlight Rescue, with six motorbike accidents being attended over the long weekend with three in and around the Southern Downs.
On Sunday around 9.15am an 18-year-old man was airlifted to Toowoomba Hospital after coming off his bike at the Haworth Park motocross facility at Leyburn. The injuries were not serious.
Then around 10.45am later the same day, a 12-year-old boy from Tweed Heads was airlifted from the bike track at Gap Creek Farm after coming off his bike trying to avoid an accident in front of him.
He was airlifted with his mother to Toowoomba Hospital with a suspected fracture of his right femur.
That same afternoon, a man in his twenties was airlifted after a motorbike accident in the Cunningham’s Gap region.
About 3.20pm, rescue services were called after the man had an accident while attempting a large motocross jump.
He was treated onsite by the Warwick-based QAS and CareFlight’s Critical Care Doctor before being flown in a stable condition to Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane with suspected head and spinal injuries.
