Four dead, toddler fighting for life after multiple crashes
Four people have died and a toddler remains in hospital after a series of traffic accidents overnight.
Police were called to a head-on collision between a silver Ford Falcon ute and a gray Ford Focus traveling east on School Road in the Logan Reserve at around 9pm on Saturday.
The passenger of the Ford Focus, a 51-year-old Victorian woman, died at the scene.
Another passenger, a two-year-old girl, suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Queensland Children’s Hospital with a potentially life-threatening condition.
The female patient, a woman in her 20s who is believed to have been a passenger in the Ford Focus, was treated for minor injuries and taken to Logan Hospital.
The driver, a 28-year-old man from Goodna, was not injured, police said.
A Queensland police spokesman said the driver of the ute, a 17-year-old Logan Reserve girl, also escaped physical injury, while three of her passengers were assessed at the scene.
A teenage girl with a serious leg injury was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital with a life-threatening condition.
Another teenage girl with head injuries and a teenage boy with head and chest injuries were taken to Logan Hospital in stable condition.
Hours earlier, officers were called to a separate fatal crash in Brisbane’s south-east, where a black Honda motorcycle and a white Kia Cerato collided on Boundary Road in Thornlands.
The bike’s 18-year-old driver, a Redland Bay native, was taken by helicopter to Princess Alexandra Hospital but died from his injuries shortly after arrival.
Police said the accident occurred just after the car turned from Abeya Street onto Boundary Road, and the driver, a 24-year-old from Acacia Ridge, was not physically injured.
An 83-year-old man died from injuries sustained in a serious crash at Wishart on Thursday morning, south of Brisbane on Saturday night.
The man was traveling with an 86-year-old woman along Gravatt Capalaba Mountain Road when he attempted to turn the vehicle onto Broadwater Road but instead left the road and crashed into a tree.
The couple, both from Wellington Point, were taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital.
The woman’s condition is critical and the investigation is ongoing.
A 31-year-old man died after his quad bike overturned in Palmerston, a rural community in the state’s far north, about 110 kilometers south of Cairns.
Officers were called to a single-vehicle crash on Pullom Road around 5pm and discovered a green Kawasaki quad bike had crashed into a pole.
The man, a Palmerston resident, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Queensland ambulance officers also responded to a number of other serious incidents on Saturday evening; these included another quad bike crash in Toowoomba, a head-on motorbike collision in the Southern Downs region and a single-vehicle crash in Greenbank in which two people were thrown from the vehicle.
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