Double tragedy for Queensland family
A Queensland family have been struck by an awful double tragedy, that has left one dead and another critically injured.
Todd Gillard, 49, was killed on December 13 when the tractor he was using to mow his property in Wongawallan, in the Gold Coast Hinterland, flipped and crushed him.
The rest of his family ran to save him but unfortunately didn’t make it.
His daughter Ebonie, 24, was staying on the property with her fiance Daniel and their one-year-old son Hudson.
“Ebonie was inside looking after the baby (and) all Daniel heard was, he heard screaming from Mel and ‘call an ambulance, call an ambulance’,” Sandie Birch, Daniel’s mother told 7NEWS.
“They [the family] raced up there on the Polaris, which is one of those farming vehicles, and basically witnessed that the tractor had tipped and unfortunately he had already passed, so it was quite distressing.”
As the emergency services arrived, disaster struck again, when Ebonie moved another farm vehicle out of the way to allow paramedics through, it flipped too, trapping her beneath it.
She was rushed to the ICU at Gold Coast University Hospital in a critical condition with broken ribs, a crushed pelvis and a broken tail bone.
The young mum survived and is now off a ventilator, beginning her recovery as she mourns the loss of her father.
“They were very close, she was Daddy’s little girl,” Ms Birch said.
A GoFundMe has been set up for Ebonie’s recovery, raising more than $14,000.
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