Gin Gin fatal crash: Fruit picker killed in house moving horror

A man has died and two other men have been injured after a horror crash involving a wide load transport of a house which was under police escort at the time. LATEST

A man has been killed and two others injured in a crash on the Bruce Highway near Gin Gin.

A fruit picker has died after trying to go around and crashing into a wide load transport carrying a house, south of Gin Gin.

The car the man was driving collided with the wide load transport on the Bruce Highway about 2am.

The crash shut down both lanes of the Bruce Highway for hours.

Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the Gin Gin crash was classified as a death in police operations as the wide load was being escorted by police.

“My understanding is that the people in the fatal car didn’t heed, or didn’t understand the warnings and have collided with the wide load,” Mr Gollschewski said.

“That’s another death on our roads, we are already 24 over this year, I am extremely concerned about this, the message needs to get out to the community … we have to drive to the conditions.”

The Bruce Highway, near Skyring Reserve Rd and Redhill Farms, was closed for hours while emergency services were on scene, and diversions were in place.

Police said the driver of the car, sustained critical injuries and was declared deceased at the scene.

Two men, the car’s passengers, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

The male driver of the transport reported to be shaken up by the ordeal but not physically injured.

Queensland Ambulance Service said multiple paramedics attended the crash near Maryborough Gin Gin Road.

Three patients were assessed at scene, including one patient with a life-threatening head injury.

Two patients with minor injuries were taken to Gin Gin Hospital in stable conditions.

Witnesses said the crash involved a car and a wide load transport, understood to be under police escort.

“It was a car that went under a house being moved by a truck. There was at least 3 escorts in front of the truck, including two police cars so it was well advised to oncoming traffic,’’ one person posted on social media.

“Old fella driving truck is quite shaken up, forensics taking photos now, I bought a packet of waters for his crew and police,’’ one truck driver at the scene said.

The incident follows a spate of horror crashes in the Bundaberg region in the past month,

Vanuatuan Augustin Kalkandi, 25, known to his workmates as August, was killed in a two-car collision at Windermere on November 23.

Malcolm Anderson Langtree, affectionately known as ‘Andy’, 68, died of critical injuries following a crash at Booyal on November 17.

Also this month, 57-year-old Bargara woman Sonja Pressler-McHugh was killed in a two-vehicle crash on Fe Walker St at Kalkie.

Days before that, Bundaberg Brewed Drinks worker Ryan Hickling, 20, was tragically killed in a crash between a Toyota HiLux and two motorcycles at the intersection of Cedars and Childers Roads at Elliott on October 30.

More to come.