Mar 27, 2021 | Community, Health

RACQ LifeFlight Rescue airlifts injured horse rider

  • Rod Stephen is a former television journalist and has worked as Foreign Editor for the Seven Network, Australian Bureau Chief for TV3 New Zealand, UK correspondent for Seven and ABC radio and as a producer for Reuters TV in London as well as SBS in Sydney and Melbourne before returning to Brisbane to work at 4BC.

The Brisbane-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter has flown an injured woman to hospital, after she fell from a horse, in the Scenic Rim region.

The aircraft was called into action around 11 o’clock this morning.

The aeromedical crew worked with Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics, to treat the woman’s injuries and prepare her for the flight.

She was then flown to the Princess Alexandra Hospital, under the care of an RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Critical Care Doctor and Flight Nurse.

The woman, aged in her 50s, travelled in a stable condition.

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