UPDATE: A MAN who was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital after a truck rollover at the Rainbow Serpent Festival remains in a critical but stable condition. An Alfred Hospital spokesperson said the man in his 30s has chest, hand and facial injuries. Two women, one in her 20s and one in her 30s were transported to Ballarat Base Hospital with a range of injuries, but remain in stable conditions. EARLIER: A festival goer has been left seriously injured, and two others are in hospital, after a truck rolled onto their tent at the Rainbow Serpent Festival site in in western Victoria. A man aged in his 30s was flown to The Alfred hospital in a serious condition after a small truck rolled into the campsite just before 5pm on Thursday at a campsite off Jack Smiths Lane in Lexton. He suffered injuries to his chest, legs, hand and face, an Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said. A woman aged in her 20s was taken to the Ballarat Base Hospital with serious injuries to her back and abdomen. Her condition was initially believed to be serious but has since been upgraded to stable. Another woman aged in her 30s was also taken by ambulance to the Ballarat Base Hospital in a stable condition with injuries to her back and hip. The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated and WorkSafe has been notified, Acting Senior Sergeant Cameron Scott said. A spokesman for the festival, Tim Harvey, said staff were devastated about the incident. "Our thoughts are with the injured and their families," Mr Harvey said. "We know the entire Rainbow community will be thinking of them all weekend but it would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this stage." The event's emergency response coordinator, Matthew Wood, said staff quickly responded after being alerted to the incident. "We have all emergency services on site, including medical and ambulance and run training exercises to prepare for responding to any serious incident," he said. "Procedures were followed as planned and our thoughts are with the victims." He added Rainbow Serpent had a strong safety record over 22 years of operations and there were no further details at this stage, as to how, or why, the accident occurred. It comes days after a suspicious fire broke out at the site of the festival at Lexton marking the second consecutive year a blaze has threatened the event. A large pile of rubbish caught fire near the entry to the festival grounds on Tuesday but it was quickly controlled. Rainbow Serpent – described as a "multifaceted weekend of dance, colour [and] expression" on its website – is an annual event that has been the centre of controversy in previous years. Two revellers have died in drug-related incidents at the festival in the past seven years, while there have been more than a dozen drug-related hospitalisations. Sexual assaults have also occurred at the popular event, with three allegations made to police in the past five years. Five young people have died at music festivals around Australia in the past four months.
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UPDATE: A MAN who was airlifted to The Alfred Hospital after a truck rollover at the Rainbow Serpent Festival remains in a critical but stable condition.
An Alfred Hospital spokesperson said the man in his 30s has chest, hand and facial injuries.
Two women, one in her 20s and one in her 30s were transported to Ballarat Base Hospital with a range of injuries, but remain in stable conditions.
EARLIER: A festival goer has been left seriously injured, and two others are in hospital, after a truck rolled onto their tent at the Rainbow Serpent Festival site in in western Victoria.
A man aged in his 30s was flown to The Alfred hospital in a serious condition after a small truck rolled into the campsite just before 5pm on Thursday at a campsite off Jack Smiths Lane in Lexton.
He suffered injuries to his chest, legs, hand and face, an Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said.
A woman aged in her 20s was taken to the Ballarat Base Hospital with serious injuries to her back and abdomen.
Her condition was initially believed to be serious but has since been upgraded to stable.
Another woman aged in her 30s was also taken by ambulance to the Ballarat Base Hospital in a stable condition with injuries to her back and hip.
The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated and WorkSafe has been notified, Acting Senior Sergeant Cameron Scott said.
A spokesman for the festival, Tim Harvey, said staff were devastated about the incident.
"Our thoughts are with the injured and their families," Mr Harvey said.
"We know the entire Rainbow community will be thinking of them all weekend but it would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this stage."
The event's emergency response coordinator, Matthew Wood, said staff quickly responded after being alerted to the incident.
"We have all emergency services on site, including medical and ambulance and run training exercises to prepare for responding to any serious incident," he said.
"Procedures were followed as planned and our thoughts are with the victims."
He added Rainbow Serpent had a strong safety record over 22 years of operations and there were no further details at this stage, as to how, or why, the accident occurred.
It comes days after a suspicious fire broke out at the site of the festival at Lexton marking the second consecutive year a blaze has threatened the event.
A large pile of rubbish caught fire near the entry to the festival grounds on Tuesday but it was quickly controlled.
Rainbow Serpent – described as a "multifaceted weekend of dance, colour [and] expression" on its website – is an annual event that has been the centre of controversy in previous years.
Two revellers have died in drug-related incidents at the festival in the past seven years, while there have been more than a dozen drug-related hospitalisations.
Sexual assaults have also occurred at the popular event, with three allegations made to police in the past five years.
Five young people have died at music festivals around Australia in the past four months.
