Cale Gilbert-Hall identified as teen killed in crash near Brooloo

The community is throwing support behind a grieving family after a teenager died in a crash near the Mary Valley just three years after his older brother was killed in a road accident.

Cale Gilbert-Hall died on Sunday, after his car crashed into a tree on a road at Brooloo.

Thousands of dollars have been raised to support a family left reeling by the devastating loss of a second son to a car crash in three years.

Cale Gilbert-Hall, 19, died on Sunday after his car hit a tree on Rodwell Rd at Brooloo, near the Mary Valley Highway.

His older brother, Jorn Gilbert-Hall, was 21 when he died in hospital following a car crash on the Yabba Creek Road at Imbil on August 6, 2020. Their mother, a first responder, was the first on the scene at Jorn’s accident.

Hayley Machen started a Go Fund Me page on Monday and quickly raised more than $5000 for the funeral.

A target of $15,000 has been set.

“There are no words to describe the tragic loss this family has endured,” Ms Machen’s post read.

“Cale is succeeded by his father George Gilbert, his mother Eleanor Hall, and his three siblings Odin, Jera and Jedd.

“Only three years ago this beautiful family grieved the loss of their son/brother Jorn ... and now unbelievably are grieving the loss of Cale.”

Cale Gilbert-Hall, 19, has been identified as the teenager who died on Sunday after his car hit a tree on Rodwell Rd at Brooloo, near the Mary Valley Highway.

During the long weekend, emergency crews were called at 9.30am Sunday after a Mitsubishi Lancer was found, crashed into a tree, about 40km south of Gympie, a Queensland Ambulance spokesman said.

Tragically, the 19-year-old from Bollier was declared dead at the scene.

Mr Gilbert-Hall had previously been an employee at the Imbil Railway Hotel.

His former boss Steven Hooper said the young man was “popular” and had a good heart.

Mr Hooper said it was a tragedy for the family, which had now lost two sons.

Elsie Bloom and Cale Gilbert-Hall at the Nolan Muster Cup in 2022.

Police said initial information indicated the crash happened sometime on Saturday night.

Three years ago, mother of the Gilbert-Hall brothers and auxiliary firefighter Eleanor Hall, was called to the scene of Jorn’s crash.

She helped her crewmates peel back the roof of the crumpled Toyota Camry he had been driving.

Ms Hall was with her son in the rescue helicopter to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where he died the following day, having suffered an “unsurvivable brain injury”.

“Jorn was generous and kind and all about family, helping anybody he could,” Ms Hall said at the time.

“He‘d give you the shirt off his back, he’d give you his last five dollars.”

Jorn Gilbert, just 21, was tragically killed in a crash on Yabba Creek Rd in Imbil.

Mr Gilbert-Hall’s death followed a horror weekend on the state’s roads.

Early Sunday morning, two men in their 30s died and two more people were taken to hospital after a car crashed into a train track in Bundaberg.

On Saturday, a 52-year-old motorcyclist died after a head-on crash with a ute at Takura on the Fraser Coast.

That same day, a 21-year-old man was discovered dead in his ute, which had rolled into a creek bed in the South Burnett near Nanango.

South of Brisbane, in Logan, a woman in her 30s died after a fiery crash about 1pm Saturday.