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Bollier teen killed in Mary Valley crash

More details have emerged after a teenager was killed in a single-vehicle crash south of Gympie on the weekend.

Grave fears are being held for a man after his car crashed into a tree in Mary Valley and was found on Sunday, October 1, 2023.
Grave fears are being held for a man after his car crashed into a tree in Mary Valley and was found on Sunday, October 1, 2023.

More details have emerged after a 19-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash at Brooloo over the long weekend.

The teenager died after his car crashed into a tree on a road near the Mary Valley Highway.

Emergency crews were called out at 9.30am on Sunday after a Mitsubishi Lancer was found, crashed into a tree along Mary Valley Road in Brooloo near Rodwell Rd, about 40km south of Gympie, a Queensland Ambulance spokesman said.

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

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

It followed a horror 24 hours on the state’s roads.

At least one man is seriously injured in a crash involving a horse trailer at Beerwah.

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.

Wide Bay’s top police officer issued a plea to drivers returning home on Monday morning to get to their destinations safely.

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