Driver charged with manslaughter after two killed in crash at Brooloo

Shocking new police claims about a crash which killed two people can be revealed along with the identity of the driver and the victims.

Two people died and a third is under police guard after a crash in Brooloo in the Gympie hinterland on Monday afternoon.

The driver who allegedly caused a crash which claimed the lives of two people at Brooloo in the Gympie region can be identified as 61-year-old Valdora man Stuart Daryl Gray.

He is accused of deliberately driving a car into a tree, killing his passengers – 85-year-old Gympie woman Norma Diana Dutton and 83-year-old Kandanga man Clive William Millers.

It’s understood the victims were brother and sister.

Superintendent Brad Inskip told reporters police believed the driver was a carer for the elderly passengers who died at the scene.

Clive Millers, then 70 poses for a photo amid new hope for the Mary Valley after the launch of a State Government renewal plan in the wake of the failed Traveston Dam project. Photo: Megan Slade.

“We now believe that that crash was not an accident, but a deliberate act,” Superintendent Inskip said.

“I can say that the two victims … were related, and their relationship with the driver was in a professional manner … he was employed as a carer.”

Supt Inskip said it did not appear alcohol was involved in the accident.

The driver who allegedly caused a crash which claimed the lives of two people at Brooloo in the Gympie region can be identified as 61-year-old Valdora man Stuart Daryl Gray.

Mr Gray, a company director, suffered non-life-threatening injuries but remained under police guard at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

He was interviewed there by Gympie CIB officers on Monday night, and on Tuesday the matter was briefly mentioned in Gympie Magistrates Court.

No application for bail was made and the charges were adjourned until May 29.

Norma Dutton in happier times at the Pavilion on Melbourne Cup Day 2022.

Police were called to Callemonda Road and Mary Valley Road around 2pm Monday to reports a Suzuki Kizashi had crashed into a tree.

The passengers, Mr Millers and Ms Dutton, both died.

Investigators continue to appeal to anyone who may have relevant information leading up to the crash or dashcam footage to come forward.
Anyone who may have seen the car travelling around Brooloo or Kandanga on Monday afternoon to come forward.

Investigators from the Forensic Crash Unit have attended the scene on Mary Valley Highway.

Originally published as Driver charged with manslaughter after two killed in crash at Brooloo