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By John Crouch
October 1, 2023 — 5.17pm
Six people have died during a harrowing long weekend on Queensland’s roads.
Two men were killed in Bundaberg early on Sunday when their Ford Falcon left the road and crashed into a raised sugarcane railway line.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating multiple road deaths across the long weekend.Credit: Queensland Police
The passengers, aged 37 and 39, were declared dead at the scene, while the male driver, 26, and a female passenger, 24, were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Elsewhere, a 19-year-old man was declared dead at the scene after his Mitsubishi Lancer hit a tree on a road in Imbil near Gympie.
Emergency services found the vehicle on Sunday morning and believe the crash happened on Saturday night.
A 52-year-old motorcyclist was killed on Saturday afternoon after he and a 4WD collided while heading in the same direction on a road at Toogoom near Hervey Bay.
Also on Saturday afternoon, a woman died in a fiery crash in Logan, south of Brisbane, when a car and ute collided on a roundabout in Priestdale and then hit a power pole.
The ute’s female passenger, who was in her 30s, died at the scene, while the male drivers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The fatalities came after a man died when his ute left the road and rolled into a dry creek bed at Barker Creek Flat, near Nanango, in the early hours of Saturday.
The driver and sole occupant, 21, was declared dead at the scene.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the incidents.
The deadly weekend came as Transport Minister Mark Bailey urged motorists to stay safe on the roads over the grand final weekend.
-AAP
