4WD runs over woman sunbaking on beach

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A woman has been run over by a four-wheel drive while sunbaking on a Gold Coast beach.

The woman, believed to be in her 40s, was sunbaking at Surfers Paradise when the vehicle - reported by the Gold Coast Bulletin online to be a Gold Coast City Council maintenance vehicle pulling a trailer - ran over her.

The incident happened near the Q1 building on Trickett Street at about 1.10pm (AEST) on Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Community Safety said the woman was taken to the Gold Coast Hospital with a wrist fracture

Numpty

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Re: 4WD runs over woman sunbaking on beach

This isnt that common on Fraser Island and a few beaches on the East Coast (Wanda north of Cronulla and Stockton) during summer. Shes lucky with only a wrist injury, the stories ive heard over the years have been much worse. Considering Fraser and Rainbow beach is considered a main road, visitors seem to forget the dangers. Of coarse the Gold Coast is a different stituation since the beach is closed to only authorised vehicles. I bet the driver will be keeping a better eye out in the future.

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Re: 4WD runs over woman sunbaking on beach

What pisses me off about this story is the media depiction of 4WD drivers. Of course its gonna be a 4WD if its on the beach - but they put it in the title as if 'oh, here we go, another irresponsible 4WD driver deliberately running over innocent people'.

At the end of the day, it was a couple of dudes setting up some stuff for an upcoming surf living carnival, and the woman walked away with a wrist fracture - woopie do.

*steps down from his soap box*

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Re: 4WD runs over woman sunbaking on beach

If anyone has ever driven along Cable Beach (Broome) then you would understand when I say I'm surprised there haven't been more prangs or accidents there with the nudie sunbathers and prairie dogs hanging it all out for everyone to see. It can be a bit of a distraction, especially with the sun glare reflecting off the coconut tanning oil..