Flown to hospital

A 38-year-old woman from Umina was flown by the NRMA Careflight helicopter to Royal North Shore Hospital after she was seriously injured in a car accident on the F3 at Ourimbah on September 12.

Southbound traffic on the F3 was blocked to allow emergency services to remove the roof of the car to access the woman, whose car overturned at the Ourimbah interchange.

The woman was trapped in the wreckage of her car for more than an hour before being rescued by emergency services.

An ambulance supervisor blocked southbound traffic to allow the helicopter to land on the road surface.

An NRMA Careflight doctor said the woman suffered multiple leg, arm and rib fractures and chest injuries in the accident.

The Umina woman underwent emergency orthopedic surgery after being flown to the Sydney hospital where she remains in a serious yet stable condition.

Press release, 12 Sep 2008 Ian Badham, NRMA Careflight