82-year-old woman is found alive after getting stuck beneath a tractor for three days
- Woman, 82, is found underneath a tractor three days after first going missing
- Alarm was raised when the woman failed to return her sister’s phone calls
- Authorities said the woman’s legs were pinned underneath the tractor’s wheels
An 82-year-old woman has been found underneath a tractor three days after she first went missing.
The woman was discovered on a property in Talarm, west of Macksville, on the NSW north coast, on Sunday evening having suffered serious leg injuries.
She was flown to Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital by the Westpac Rescue chopper after receiving treatment from paramedics.
It’s understood the alarm was raised when calls from the woman’s sister went unanswered for three days.
Westpac’s rescue helicopter was dispatched to the scene
The woman’s legs were trapped under the tractor’s wheels.
A 95-year-old farmer was found alive last month two days after he fell off his tractor and was buried in mud in Carters Ridge, north of Brisbane.
It wasn’t clear what caused the elderly man to become stuck, however, he is believed to have experienced a medical episode.
Wedding fashion designer Claire McKenzie lost limbs in a horrific lawn mowing incident in Ballandean, in Queensland’s Granite Belt region, late last month.
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