A man in his early fifties had to be airlifted to hospital on Friday after falling heavily on his property.
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Ambulance NSW was called to the Hanworth Road property, near Bannaby at about 9.45am, Inspector Martin Cutler said.
The man had been riding his quad bike, alighted and later stumbled on a steep embankment.
Due to the remote location, the patient was winched out by the Toll helicopter and flown to Wollongong Hospital with a minor leg fracture.
The man, from the south coast, was flown to the facility due to its close proximity to his home.
Meantime, ambulance and police were kept busy with a single-vehicle accident at Wollogorang, some 20km south of Goulburn on Friday.
A woman travelling north on the Federal Highway lost control of her 2014 Subaru at about midday and hit a guard rail. The vehicle rolled several times before coming to rest upside down in a ditch. The car’s airbags deployed.
A husband of the 64-year-old Goulburn woman told The Post that a Rural Flying Doctor Service doctor driving behind her stopped, freed her from the car and rendered first aid before emergency services arrived.
“She’s lucky to be alive,” he said.
The woman suffered seat belt and hand injuries and was complaining of a sore leg. She was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital by ambulance but sent home soon after.
Inspector Cutler said the number of accidents had ramped up as the holiday weekend began.
Ambulance officers were also called to a Mummel property west of Goulburn at about 4.30pm Friday, where a boy had fallen out of a tree. He suffered a significant laceration to his left leg and was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital.