A 7-year-old girl is in hospital tonight after being hit by a car on the state’s Far North Coast.
Emergency crews were called to Elm Street in Evans Head just after 4:30 this afternoon.
Paramedics treated the girl for serious head injuries, before she was airlifted to the Brisbane Children’s Hospital in a critical condition.
The driver of the car, a woman believed to be in her 30s, was uninjured but taken to Lismore Base Hospital for mandatory testing.
Circumstances surrounding the cause of the crash are under investigation.
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