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A male employee has been injured after a bus tyre fell on him at a depot on the NSW Central Coast.
A NSW Ambulance spokesman said they were called around 7.20am on Thursday “to reports a bus had fallen onto a man”, aged in his 20s, at Empire Bay Drive in Kincumber.
However, a spokesman for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter later clarified a bus tyre had fallen on a man working at a bus depot.
The man was transported in the helicopter to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition.
“NSW Ambulance paramedics and the Helicopter Critical Care Medical Team have treated the 26-year-old male for lower limb and pelvic injuries after the bus tyre he was changing fell on his lower body,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
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A light plane has crashed in a farm paddock near Glentui in North Canterbury.
A light aeroplane from a Canterbury club snapped a power line before crashing into a farm paddock and ending up on its nose, leaving the two men on board in hospital. Emergency services were called to the Glentui area of the Waimakariri district, north-west of Christchurch, at about 11.35am on Wednesday. Two members of the Canterbury Recreational Aircraft Club aboard the plane were injured, one seriously and another moderately.
Did you witness the crash? Email reporters@press.co.nz A spokesman for Garden City Helicopters, which operates the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, said the aircraft was sitting upright on its nose when crews arrived.
He checked on the pair onboard who appeared to have gone into shock. Emergency services were called to the crash at about 11.35am. The two members of the Canterbury Recreational Aircraft Club onboard the plane were injured, one seriously and another moderately. “They’re a really lucky pair to be alive,” Stoddart said.
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Two people were injured when this light aircraft crashed into a paddock in North Canterbury. The man who was seriously injured was airlifted to Christchurch Hospital, while the other was taken by ambulance, St John spokesman Gerard Campbell said. A spokesman for Garden City Helicopters, which operates the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, said the aircraft was sitting upright on its nose when crews arrived.