A 47-year-old woman died at the scene of the three-car crash

Police have charged the 22-year-old driver of a Landcruiser following the fatal crash in Julago on Sunday afternoon which took the life of an Ayr woman.

POLICE have charged the 22-year-old driver of a Landcruiser following the fatal crash in Julago on Sunday afternoon which took the life of an Ayr woman.

At 5pm on Sunday, a Toyta Landcruiser travelling south on the Bruce Highway struck a Toyota Corolla then collided with a Mazda 3.

The Corolla and Mazda 3 were both travelling northbound.

Emergency services and police attended the scene, where a 47-year-old Ayr woman was declared deceased.

A woman has died, with another in critical condition along with two children after a head on accident on the Bruce Highway at Nome, just south of Townsville on Sunday.

The Mazda 3 passengers, a 30-year-old Ayr woman and two two-year-old children were transported to Townsville University Hospital in a critical condition.

The woman and the two-year-old boy remain critical.

A 22-year-old Ayr man and a 30-year-old Kelso man, the two occupants of the Landcruiser, were transported to hospital in a stable condition.

The driver of the Corolla, a 44-year-old Rasmussen man was uninjured.

Police have charged the 22-year-old driver of the Landcruiser with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death whilst adversely affected.

He will appear in Townsville Magistrates Court on December 7.

Crash investigators are appealing to witnesses to come forward with information or dashcam vision of the crash to contact police – especially any cars travelling behind a blue 2008 Mazda 3.

Originally published as A 47-year-old woman died at the scene of the three-car crash