A woman has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after the car she was driving rolled on Coolamon Scenic Drive overnight.
The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter reports it was called out at midnight on Sunday (May 27) to a single-vehicle rollover on Coolamon Scenic Drive, near Mullumbimby.
The female driver and sole occupant of the vehicle was treated on scene and transported to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious condition.
Possum Shoot Road crash
According to a Possum Shoot Road resident, a local woman came off that road in her small car on her way to work on Friday morning as a passing truck caused her to move too close to the edge.
The reader, who asked not to be named, said that there was long grass and no railing at the point where ‘her car went over the bank, damaging the dairy farmer’s brand new fence’.
‘She was taken away by an ambulance. She did not hit the truck but she literally had nowhere to go except over the bank.’
The reader said many residents had been forced into the gutter and had tyres blow out or been stuck in the gutter.’
She added ‘there is a 4.5 tonne limit which means some trucks are allowed on the road, which leaves little room for passing’.
‘I was hit a few years ago by a truck with the driver talking on his mobile phone and on a blind corner on the wrong side of the road.
‘All the locals in our area are very concerned for our safety on this road and are hoping that something can be done to decrease the traffic using it and the speed they drive on it in order to increase the safety for everyone, the resident said.
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