A TWO-year-old girl is in John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle with critical head injuries after a freight train and a white station wagon collided near Moorland on Thursday morning.
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Two Westpac Rescue Helicopters, a NSW Ambulance helicopter and emergency services attended Henry's Lane near Coralville Road around 11am in response to reports of the accident.
The driver of the vehicle according to police is a 30-year-old woman.
It is reported that she is the mother of the passengers in the vehicle - three children, aged two, six and seven-years-old.
It is believed the family lives in the Manning Valley.
The station wagon came to rest on its side next to the crossing after colliding with the freight train and emergency services personnel from the Volunteer Rescue Association worked for more than an hour to free the trapped occupants.
Three helicopters landed in a paddock around 100 metres from the crash site before airlifting the passengers.
The two-year-old girl was placed in an induced coma for transportation to John Hunter Hospital.
The helicopter departed the accident site at 1.15pm and arrived in Newcastle at 2pm.
The second helicopter transported the seven-year-old girl who sustained serious head injuries.
NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the six-year-old girl for shock and minor injuries.
The 30-year-old woman was treated at the scene for serious injuries. The third helicopter reportedly transported the mother and six-year-old child to John Hunter Hospital.
The northbound freight train appeared to have taken several hundred metres to stop after colliding with the car.
The driver of the train was treated for shock and taken to Manning Hospital in Taree for mandatory blood and urine testing.
Officers attached to Manning Great Lakes Local Area Command with the assistance of the Crash Investigation Unit established a crime scene and are investigating the incident.
