Oakey crash: Second victim dies after crash that killed school captain Olivia Harwood

THE mother of a teen girl killed in a horror three-vehicle crash on the Warrego Hwy west of Brisbane has sadly died of her injuries a week after the incident.

THE mother of a teen girl killed in a horror three-vehicle crash on the Warrego Hwy west of Brisbane has sadly died of her injuries a week after the accident.

Rockhampton Girls Grammar school house captain Olivia Harwood, 17, died at the scene of the Oakey crash last Tuesday while her mother Beverley, 44, and father Allan, 48, were both flown to Brisbane hospitals.

However, Mrs Harwood succumbed to her injuries and died in hospital yesterday - a week after the tragedy.

Bev Harwood and her daughter Olivia, 17, have died following a three-vehicle crash on the Warrego Highway near Oakey.

The trio were returning home from holidays when a semi-trailer travelling east along the Warrego Highway collided with a utility, also travelling east, at 9.15am on October 2.

The force of the impact caused the utility to collide with a sedan in which the Harwoods were travelling.

Mr Harwood remains the sole survivor from that car.

The horror crash scene. Picture: Bev Lacey.

The driver and sole occupant of the utility, a 36-year-old man from Oakey, was taken to hospital and the driver of the semi-trailer, a 35-year-old man from Victoria, was not physically injured.

Investigations by the Toowoomba Forensic Crash Unit are continuing.

A victim is taken to hospital after the crash. Picture: Bev Lace

Olivia was in her final year at Rockhampton Girls Grammar School and a house captain.

School principal Christine Hills described Olivia as “a young woman of immense talent and creativity with a world of possibility in front of her”.

“Our thoughts are with her family at this time,” she said.