# Twelve soldiers remain in Lismore hospital after army trucks rolled in northern NSW

Twelve soldiers remain in hospital – two in a serious condition – after  on a country road near Lismore on Saturday evening as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred lashed the northern New South Wales coast and southern Queensland.

Thirty-two defence personnel were involved in the crash – members of the 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment, part of the 7th Brigade based at Gallipoli Barracks in northern Brisbane – just after 5pm on Tregeagle Road, 9km south-west of Lismore.

NSW police superintendent Scott Tanner said four soldiers were still “trapped” inside the vehicles when he arrived on the scene.

One truck had left the road and had overturned in a paddock, while the other was blocking the entire road.

“Tregeagle Road is a small country road, not very wide,” he said.

“It was a very hectic scene when we arrived. We had patients of varying injuries up and down the roadway and four persons trapped.”

All of the soldiers were wearing seatbelts, Tanner said.

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