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Woman pinned under mower for two hours

May 10, 2023 9:12 am in by
Supplied by RACQ LifeFlight Rescue

A woman has been trapped under her ride-on lawn mower for around two hours after it rolled down an embankment on a property in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

The woman, in her 60s, was cutting grass on a private property at Obi Obi yesterday afternoon when she fell down an embankment.

She landed in a small gully and was pinned down by the lawn mower.

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The RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter landed near the scene of the accident, where the aeromedical crew met with paramedics and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services personnel to free and treat the woman’s multiple injuries.

She was flown to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in serious but stable condition.

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