Girl struck by car on K’gari airlifted off island to Brisbane

A primary-school-aged girl has suffered “significant” injuries after she was struck by a car on K’gari’s Orchid Beach on Monday.

Paramedics were called mid-morning and treated the girl for serious shoulder and pelvic injuries.

A helicopter was brought in from Bundaberg at 10.56am, and she was airlifted to Queensland Children’s Hospital in a stable condition.

Orchid Beach is on the northern, ocean-facing side of K’gari, about 65 kilometres north of Eurong.

The area is home to a number of small hotels and holiday rentals.

The beach is one of many on the island where driving on the sand is permitted, sitting just north of K’gari’s “sand highway”, 75 Mile Beach – where Canadian backpacker Piper James drowned in January “as a consequence of” an early morning dingo attack.