Elderly man dies in tragic crash near cane tracks
An 84-year-old man has died after crashing into a culvert near cane tracks on a rural Queensland road. It comes as there have been more than 230 deaths on our roads, up 15 on the five year average.
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An elderly Andergrove man has died following a traffic crash at Rural View this morning.
The 84 year old had been driving a Mitsubishi Triton on Mackay Habana Rd when it crashed into a culvert at nearby train tracks.
As a result cane trains travelling in the Habana were forced to delay as Mackay emergency crews blocked of the road in both directions.
The incident occurred about 10.40am Friday, prompting multiple emergency crews including police and several paramedic crews after a member of the public, who witnesses the crash, phone triple-0.
Diversions were in place at Mdina Dr, where police had set up a roadblock, as the Forensic Crash Unit investigated the scene including capturing drone footage of the incident site.
It is understood police also spoke with Farleigh Mill to stop cane trains travelling in the area as the vehicle is near train tracks.
Investigations into what caused the crash are ongoing.
The serious crash is the 18th death on Mackay district roads in 2023, however at the moment only 16 of those are counted as part of the official road toll figure.
It follows a horror run this week on north Queensland roads which included three people losing their lives in separate highway rollovers that injured five others.
One witness to the carnage described how she rang her children ‘crying her eyes out’ after seeing a man die in a rollover on the Bruce Highway between Mackay and Sarina.
The crash came just before another rollover in Far North Queensland which claimed the lives of two people and left four injured, one critically.
A 38-year-old man, who was the passenger in the vehicle, died at the scene.
The driver, a 40-year-old Rural View man, was taken to Mackay Base Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Meanwhile, police are appealing for anyone who may have seen or have footage of a blue Holden station wagon in the hours or minutes before it crashed on the Mulligan Hwy south west of Cooktown on Wednesday, killing two people and critically injuring a third.
There have been more than 230 fatalities on Queensland’s road this year, up 15 on the 2018 to 2022 average.
Five days earlier Mirani man Jamie Winn, 35, was killed in a crash with a car while riding his black Harley Davidson to work in Paget.
The community is rallying to help his widow who has Multiple Sclerosis.
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