Police call for driver of SUV, ute to assist with investigations into Bruce Highway fatal crash

Police are asking the public for help finding two drivers who were travelling in front and behind a red Holden Commodore which crashed, killing the 41-year-old driver.

Police are calling for witnesses to a single-car crash that claimed the life of a 41-year-old Koongal man two weeks ago.

A Queensland Police Service spokesman said the car involved in the single-vehicle crash on the Bruce Hwy at Takilberan, north of Gin Gin, was a red 2006 Holden Commodore ute with a roof top tent, bearing the registration 033HF3.

Police said a white SUV travelling in front of the Holden and a black ute travelling behind it may have useful information for the forensic crash unit.

The crash happened about 1pm on Monday, April 22.

There was no indication the motorists driving these two vehicles were involved in the crash, the spokesman said.

Police are asking the public for help finding two drivers who were travelling in front and behind a red Holden Commodore which crashed, killing its 41-year-old driver.

Anyone with information should contact police via www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting or phone 131 444, quoting reference number QP2400692466,

Earlier, a police spokesman said initial information indicated the Holden Commodore was travelling northbound on the Bruce Hwy about 1.5km south of Duck Pond Road in Takilberan when it crashed into a tree.

The driver and sole occupant of the Commodore died at the scene.

The crash followed a January 21 incident in the same area in which a former medic, Ken Whittaker, dived off the Kolan River Bridge between Bundaberg and Gladstone in an attempt to save a woman’s life.

Most recently, 32-year-old Joel Betts died in a single-vehicle crash in the area while travelling from Gladstone to his father’s home in Toowoomba.

Transport and Main Roads data shows that the 12km stretch of the Bruce Hwy running through Kolonga has had more crashes involving fatalities than any other part of the notorious highway since 2015.

The 41-year-old man is the 30th person to die on the Bruce Hwy in the Wide Bay since 2021.

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