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Five people taken to hospital after overnight crashes at Maleny, Nambour and Peachester

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Five people were taken to Sunshine Coast hospitals overnight, after three separate crashes in the hinterland.

Paramedics assessed five patients at a two-vehicle crash on Mountain View Road, Maleny, at 7.30pm. Three of them were transported to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in stable conditions.

Two teenage females were injured, with one suffering chest and leg pain and the other with neck pain. A man in his 50s also had neck pain.

A car then crashed into a guard rail at Nambour, on Brockhust Road and Zealey Road, just before midnight. A male was taken to Nambour Hospital in a stable condition.

A vehicle rollover at Peachester Road had paramedics assessing four people just after midnight. A teenage male, with neck pain, was taken Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.

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