Road clear and open to traffic following Mt Garnet fatal crash

The Kennedy Highway has been cleared of wreckage and is now open following a fatal single vehicle crash outside Mount Garnet.

UPDATE: The Kennedy Highway has been cleared of wreckage and is now open following a fatal single vehicle crash outside Mount Garnet.

UPDATE: Queensland police have provided an update for scores of motorists stuck in a long line of traffic following a fatal single vehicle crash outside Mount Garnet.

The driver of a vehicle was killed on the Kennedy Highway 5kms east of Mount Garnet at 5.40am.

A line of traffic banked up on approach to Mount Garnet following a fatal vehicle roll over this morning. Picture: Nathan Bursztynowicz

A police spokesman said the Forensic Crash Unit was still at the scene however the road was expected to be open shortly.

“The road is still expected to be blocked until after 1pm at the earliest,” he said.

“(Forensic Crash) will still be on scene, they are looking for, marks on the road and even after the deceased has been taken away they still have work to do.

“Part of the investigation is to determine whether speed and drink driving were contributing factors in the crash.”

The driver and sole occupant killed in the crash was a Mount Garnet woman aged in her 30s.

For further updates on the road visit the Department of Transport and Main Roads live traffic map.

A blue SUV was headed west on the Kennedy Highway when the driver has lost control and the vehicle has rolled this morning.

EARLIER: A woman has been killed and traffic has been brought to a standstill after a tragic crash on a critical Far North highway.

Queensland Traffic has advised the all lanes of the Kennedy Highway about 5km east of Mount Garnet are closed following the incident.

A Mount Garnett woman in her 30s, the driver of the vehicle, died at the scene.

There were no passengers.

A woman has been killed in a horrific crash on the Kennedy Highway at Innot Hot Springs. PICTURE: SUPPLIED

A Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman said paramedics were called to the incident at 5.42am.

They were still on scene about 7am.

A Queensland police spokesman said it would be several hours before the highway reopened, following “the most serious of crashes.”

Cairns woman Stephanie Jeffrey was on her way to O'Brien's Creek Campground at Mount Surprise for a long weekend getaway with the crash brining her road trip to a halt just after 6am.

“The police told us that there had been a fatal and that we were all best off to turn around and come back later because it could be several hours before the road opens again,” Ms Jeffrey said.

At 8am she said there were a number of vehicles destined for the west, then parked at Innot Hot Springs, as they waited for the highway to reopen.

“The guy behind us had a 10-hour trip ahead of him and many others who were heading to and past Karumba.”

The stretch of highway at Innot Hot Springs has been the site of numerous serious crashes in recent years, including a semi-trailer rollover at the Reinecker Rd intersection that left a driver with head injuries last month.

A 50-year-old woman was killed in a crash on the Kennedy Highway about 5km east of Innot Hot Springs in 2016.

Originally published as Road clear and open to traffic following Mt Garnet fatal crash