Wongawallan car crash: Man dead after Gold Coast Hinterland crash
A man has died after a horror truck crash on a notorious Gold Coast Hinterland road.
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A man has died after the horror crash of a truck which clipped signs and guard rails - leaving a kilometre of debris - on a notorious Gold Coast Hinterland road.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Elevation Drive and Tamborine Oxenford Road in Wongawallan at 6.45am on Tuesday, when the semi-trailer ploughed through a guard rail.
A Gold Coast police spokesman confirmed the driver had died at the scene.
The truck’s cabin was obliterated from the force of the crash, with it torn from the vehicle and left lying in the middle of the road.
More than a kilometre of damage and debris littered Tamborine Oxenford Road, including rolls of turf from inside the truck’s trailer.
It’s believed the vehicle was travelling in a north-easterly direction and crossed onto the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic several times, taking out signs and clipping guard rails before the catastrophic crash.
There were skids marks and diesels spills for several hundred metres leading up to where the truck came to rest, outside the Fox and Hound Country Inn.
No other drivers were injured during the incident.
Officers from the forensic crash attended the scene and spent several hours taking photos and processing the grisly and widespread scene.
Traffic controllers were brought in as the southbound lane remained closed for most of the day, allowing tow truck crews and emergency services to clear the wreckage.
The cause of the crash is unknown, police are urging anyone who has dashcam footage of the incident to contact 131 444.
The truck driver is the eighth person killed on Gold Coast roads this year.
In August, a woman in her 80s died after colliding head-on with a truck on Tamborine Oxenford Road.
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