Kilcoy-Beerwah Rd serious crash: Man critical, woman seriously injured

More details have been released about a horror crash that left a man fighting for his life in hospital and two others injured after a car and horse truck collided near the Sunshine Coast. UPDATES

A man was flown to hospital in a critical after a crash between a car and a horse truck near the Sunshine Coast.

More details have emerged of a horror crash that left a man fighting for his life and two others injured after a collision involving a horse truck and a car near the Sunshine Coast.

Emergency services were called to the scene at Kilcoy-Beerwah Rd at Stanmore, near Beerwah, about 1pm on Sunday, October 1.

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said an initial investigation showed a horse truck driven by a 75-year-old Ellangowan man struck the driver’s side of an SUV, driven by a 40-year-old Royston woman, causing the SUV to go off-road and roll.

The truck hit trees and the drivers of both vehicles were trapped and cut out by emergency services.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the man suffered serious head and chest injuries, and was in a critical condition when he was flown to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

He remained in hospital, the police spokeswoman said.

The woman, also in a serious condition with chest injuries, was rushed to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

A third patient, a 39-year-old Royston man who was a passenger in the SUV, was taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital with foot and chest injuries.

Two people died after a car crashed into a train track at Bundaberg Sunday morning.

The police spokeswoman said local residents removed two horses from the truck and they suffered no serious injuries.

She said the forensic crash unit was investigating and urged anyone who had information or footage to come forward.

Wide Bay/Burnett Acting Superintendent Paul Algie pleaded with drivers to take care following a horror weekend on the state roads.

“I’m appealing to people right now, listening to the radio, watch your speed and surroundings and make sure you arrive home safely with your loved ones,” he said.

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.

A 19-year-old man was declared dead on Sunday morning after his car plunged into a tree on Mary Valley Road, South of Gympie.

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 also 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.