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Driver flown to Adelaide after serious crash

SERIOUS COLLISION: A 20-year-old Mount Gambier woman is lucky to be alive after her car collided with a tree on Sunday morning. The driver was flown to Adealide and treated for serious, non life threatening injuries. Picture: GRAEME MELLOR

A MOUNT Gambier woman sustained serious injuries after her car crashed into a tree on Sunday morning.

At around 9.50am, the driver of a 2014 white Ford Focus lost control of her car while travelling west along Mount Burr Road, negotiating a right-hand sweeping bend.

Emergency services including South Australian Ambulance Service, Country Fire Services Millicent and Mount Graham brigades, South Australian Police from Millicent and Limestone Coast Highway Patrol from Mount Gambier attended the scene.

The driver sustained significant, non life-threatening injuries and was conveyed to Mount Gambier Hospital before she was flown to Adelaide with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and admitted into the intensive care unit.

Investigations into the cause of the crash are ongoing.

Police are yet to speak to the driver, however believe her vehicle was the only one involved.

It was the second accident along Mount Burr Road in four days.

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