Tram derails at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast after medical emergency

All tram services southbound of Surfers Paradise connected nan Gold Coast are suspended aft a tram derailed this morning.

The tram had unloaded each passengers astatine nan Surfers Paradise North position pursuing a aesculapian emergency astatine nan Cavill Avenue Station.

The tram past continued southbound until its tail jumped nan tracks adjacent Ocean Avenue and Surfers Paradise Boulevard, smashing into a ray pole.

Witness Alan Jarvie said he noticed nan tram changing lines.

"I was watching it sorta commencement moving, taking disconnected and portion of it went off, portion of it conscionable slid on nan way line," Jarvie said.

"All of a sudden, it deed that mediate ligament station and wires travel down, a fewer sparks, not for very long.

"It unopen disconnected beautiful quickly and past each of a abrupt group came from everywhere."

The driver was taken to infirmary arsenic a precaution.

Services northbound to Helensvale person been restored but southbound to Broadbeach remains closed, pinch only buses disposable arsenic transport.

G:LINK says it is investigating nan origin of nan derailment and moving to place immoderate harm to nan network.

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