Woman airlifted after car hits tree south of Gympie

A WOMAN whose car smashed into a tree south-west of Gympie was airlifted to Brisbane in a critical condition on Monday afternoon.

RACQ Careflight took the call to pick up the woman at 4.30pm after her car veered from Mary Valley Road.

Medicos say she had "multi-trauma injuries".

She was taken to Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.