abc.net.au/news/horror-weekend-on-queensland-roads-multiple-fatalities/102921830Five people have died and several more are injured after multiple serious traffic crashes on Queensland roads this weekend.The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating all five deathsTwo men were killed in a single-vehicle crash in Kalkie at around 3am on Sunday, when a Ford Falcon came off the road and collided with a raised sugarcane railway line.
The 26-year-old male driver and a 24-year-old female passenger were taken to Bundaberg Hospital, but the two other male passengers, aged 37 and 39, were declared dead at the scene.Police say a car and a ute collided on a roundabout in Priestdale before hitting a power pole.The two male drivers were hospitalised.
A 52-year-old motorcyclist died after his bike collided with a four-wheel drive near Hervey Bay on Saturday afternoon. A 21-year-old driver has also died after a ute left the D'Aguilar Highway near Nanango early Saturday morning and rolled into a dry creek.As of last Sunday, September 24, a total of 207 people had died on Queensland roads so far in 2023 — 17 more lives lost than the previous five-year average for the same period, but nine less than the same time last year.
More than a quarter of the state's road deaths this year have been in the North Coast police region alone, which covers the Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay and Wide Bay.