Caloundra woman confirmed dead after Monduran rollover

A 36-year-old woman from Caloundra has been confirmed as the victim of a tragic truck rollover on the Bruce Highway near Gin Gin.

The Bruce Highway has reopened to traffic north of Gin Gin after a truck rollover on Wednesday morning.

Further details have emerged of a woman who died in a horrific truck rollover on the Bruce Highway north of Gin Gin in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

A QPS spokesperson confirmed on Thursday the woman was a 36-year-old resident of Golden Beach at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.

A Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service spokesman said on Thursday the driver of the B-double, a 51 year-old man, was transferred to a Brisbane hospital overnight from Bundaberg Hospital.

The Golden Beach woman, the only passenger in the truck, was freed by emergency services after being trapped in the vehicle for some time, but died at the scene.

The driver was flown by emergency rescue helicopter to Bundaberg in a serious condition with head and chest injuries, before being transported to Brisbane.

A man and a woman were in this truck when it rolled at Monduran, north of Gin Gin.

A police spokesperson said on Wednesday the B-double had been travelling north on the Bruce Highway when it rolled down an embankment about 2.40am.

The Bruce Highway was closed to traffic for several hours.

The truck’s cargo of beer kegs and cases was strewn across the highway, with police controlling movement of the slow-moving traffic once they partially reopened the highway through the single lane.

A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman said the first of three crews arrived on the scene around 3am. Fire and Queensland Ambulance Service crews left the scene about 7am.

A Queensland Police Service spokesperson said the Forensic Crash Unit was investigating, and called for any witnesses or anyone with dashcam vision from the area around the time of the incident to contact police.

Kegs and cases of beer were strewn along the highway following the truck rollover on the Bruce Highway on Wednesday morning.

The rollover follows a shocking spate of serious accidents on Wide Bay roads in recent days.

A 63-year-old Torquay man was killed on Tuesday after his car veered off the Maryborough Cooloola Road in the Tuan Forest and plunged into Poona Creek.

Two people, including a 17-year-old Bundaberg girl, were critically injured near Childers on Tuesday, May 23.

Police said the man’s car was discovered partially submerged by a passing driver shortly before 5.30am on Tuesday.

Eight road deaths across the Wide Bay have left families shattered and communities rocked before Tuesday’s fatality.

In just five months accidents, crashes and fatalities on Wide Bay roads have overtaken statistics from 2022, cementing local roads as some of the most deadly in the state.