Hospital flight for girl after ride into barbed wire fence (Ebenezer)
Updated 1.30pm
Third injured kiddie flight in three days …
A young girl suffered serious cuts to her neck when she rode a mini-motorcycle into a barbed wire fence on a farm at Ebenezer, near Windsor, in Sydney’s outer north-west this morning.
Ambulance officers alerted NRMA CareFlight’s flying trauma team to the girl’s plight just before 11.30 am.
The NRMA CareFlight trauma doctor said accurate directions given by family members to the ambulance co-ordination centre allowed NRMA CareFlight to land at the turf farm just minutes after the “000” alert.
The doctor also said the five-year-old girl’s protective helmet and clothing prevented further cuts to her body after she rode into the fence.
“In particular, she was riding with her visa down which stopped the fence from giving her a very serious eye injury,” the doctor said.
The girl and her family, who live at Kenthurst, were visiting friends at the farm when the accident happened.
After stabilisation at the scene by the doctor and paramedics the girl, also accompanied by her mother, was flown by NRMA CareFlight to the Westmead Children’s Hospital.
The girl was in a serious but stable condition on arrival at the hospital at 12.40 pm.
It was the third flight to a paediatric injury in as many days for NRMA CareFlight’s trauma team.
On Wednesday, NRMA CareFlight’s doctor flew to Bowen Mountain, on the edge of the Blue Mountains north-west of Sydney, to team with ambulance paramedics in treating a toddler.
The NRMA CareFlight doctor said the 18-month-old girl fell while trying to climb onto an exercise bike at her Waratah Street home, and was left briefly unconscious then fitting.
The girl was stabilised, then accompanied also by her mother, was flown to the Westmead Children’s Hospital where she was in a stable condition on arrival just after 12.30 pm.
Later that day the flying trauma team rushed to treat a boy at Beverly Hills, in Sydney’s south-west after he fell from a fence onto a star picket at his Tarrilli Street home.
The steel pole left the boy with back injuries.
After stabilisation by the crew doctor and ambulance paramedics the boy was flown to the Westmead Hospital for further treatment.
The boy, who was accompanied on the flight also by his mother, was in a stable condition on arrival at the hospital at 4.40 pm.
ENDS: For further information please call NRMA CareFlight spokesman Ian Badham on 0418 245 748.
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