AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2009
Qld: Qld: Boy speared by star picket
BRISBANE, Dec 25 AAP - A 12-year old boy is in a stable condition after he was impaled
by a star picket in a trail bike accident near Dalby in southwest Queensland on Christmas
morning.
The boy crashed the trail bike into a fence, dislodging a 1.8-metre star picket which
pierced the boy's body below his chest and went through his back, said RACQ Careflight
spokesman Brian Russell.
"He was riding down a gravel driveway, his bike's come out from underneath him and
they've careered through a wire fence, uplifted a star picket and the star picket has
gone straight through, just below his stomach," Mr Russell said.
The victim was treated in an ambulance at the scene, and a fire crew assisted in cutting
away protruding parts of the star picket.
He was flown on the Careflight helicopter to the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane.
A spokesman for the hospital said a procedure had been performed and the boy was in
a stable condition.
AAP stg/jl
KEYWORD: TRAILBIKE WRAP
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