Man, woman seriously injured in Bruce Highway rollover at Bakers Creek

Police are investigating after a vehicle and trailer crashed off a bridge and onto a river bank, initially closing the Bruce Highway in both directions.

Police inspect where a vehicle and trailer has come off a bridge and rolled down a river bank south of Mackay. Photo: Janessa Ekert.

Police are on scene at a serious highway crash where a vehicle and trailer has come off a bridge and rolled down a river bank south of Mackay

As a result the Bruce Highway were closed in both directions at Bakers Creek as Mackay’s Forensic Crash Unit investigates the scene.

A 4WD towing a trailer northbound on the Bruce Highway crashed through the guardrail at Bakers Creek bridge, south of Mackay. Photo: Janessa Ekert

About 3.30am a 4WD towing a trailer northbound on the highway has crashed through the guardrail at Bakers Creek bridge and crashed and rolled on the river bank trapping a couple in their 50s in the wreckage for some time.

A couple in their 50s were seriously injured was taken to Mackay Base Hospital. Photo: Janessa Ekert

The pair were seriously injured and taken to Mackay Base Hospital – a man suffered head and chest injuries and a woman suffered chest injuries.

Police and paramedics were called to the scene.

Mackay’s Forensic Crash unit is investigating. Photo: Janessa Ekert

It is understood the bridge is missing about 10 to 15 metres of guardrail.

Both lanes of the highway have since reopened.

A vehicle and trailer has come off a bridge and rolled down a river bank south of Mackay. Photo: Janessa Ekert

The crash at Bakers Creek occurred about three and a half hours after a fatal crash at Kuraby just after midnight that claimed the life of a 30-year-old man died.

Police say the vehicle the man was driving westbound on Beenleigh Rd left the road and crashed into a light pole near Pioneer Dr. He died at the scene.

It came in a horror 36 hours on South East Queensland roads, with a 12-year-old boy critically injured in Brisbane’s east on Thursday morning, while a motorcyclist was killed on the Warrego Hwy at Dinmore and a Coorparoo man was killed in a crash at Highgate Hill, both on Wednesday night.

More to come.