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A woman aged in her 50s remains in a serious condition at the Royal Melbourne hospital after being trapped underneath a tractor in Ross Creek yesterday.
An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said the woman was taken by road ambulance to the Ballarat Base Hospital yesterday, before she was flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
She sustained leg injuries.
UPDATE, 6.05pm: An ambulance helicopter landed in a nearby paddock at 5.47pm, according to an Ambulance Victoria spokesman.
The woman, believed to be aged in her 50s, is in a serious but stable condition.
Once freed and stabilised, she will be flown to a Melbourne hospital.
EARLIER, 5.45pm: Emergency services are on the scene of a tractor rollover in Ross Creek which has left a woman in her 50s trapped by the leg.
CFA and rescue crews received the call to the property on Spratlings Road just after 5pm and arrived to find a John Deere tractor on its side near a dam and the woman pinned.
There were reports the woman could have been trapped for up to five hours.
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