Five patients were flown to hospital in Darwin following four separate vehicle crashes at remote Top End locations late on Thursday.
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Health clinic and CareFlight teams combined to treat patients injured in the crashes near Mataranka, Umbakumba, Borroloola and Robinson River.
A 63-year-old man was flown by CareFlight to Royal Darwin Hospital after he was struck by a caravan being reversed at Mataranka.
A teenage boy left briefly unconscious after a quad bike crash near Umbakumba, on Groote Eylandt, was stabilised by clinic staff before his airlift to Darwin.
Clinic nurses, police and emergency services drove 55 km to where a caravan being towed rolled near Borroloola.
While seat belts saved the couple, aged in their 60s, from more serious injury they needed to be flown by CareFlight to Royal Darwin Hospital overnight.
An injured man was flown to Darwin from Robinson River following a car crash at Calvert River, near the Queensland border.
The clinic staff from Robinson River drove to the crash and brought the man, who suffered a fractured leg, back to the clinic so CareFlight could transfer him to Darwin where he arrived in a stable condition shortly after 6 am.
CareFlight operates the Top End Medical Retrieval Service which provides medical rescue and retrieval services to Territorians across the Top End, on behalf of the NT government.