Japanese woman killed on Australian horror highway

Japanese woman killed on Australian horror highway.

The deadly stretch of the Bruce Highway between Mackay and Marlborough claimed another life in the early hours of yesterday, marking the tenth fatality in nine months.

A Japanese woman believed to be in her early 20s died at the scene of the single-vehicle crash, when the Toyota Tarago in which she was travelling crashed at Tooloombah Creek, about 26km north of Marlborough.

Emergency services and police rushed to the scene at 3am yesterday, where three other Korean male occupants, two aged 28 and one 23, suffered non life-threatening injuries and were taken to the Rockhampton Base Hospital, a Queensland Police Media spokesman said.

“Preliminary investigations indicate that the vehicle was being driven by a 28-year-old man and was travelling south along the Bruce Highway when it crashed,” the spokesman said.

“Investigations indicate that the vehicle rolled several times before coming to rest on its side. The four occupants of the vehicle are believed to be foreign nationals holidaying in Queensland.”

The southbound lane of the Bruce Highway was closed for three hours while the forensic crash unit began investigations.

Meanwhile, a 46-year-old Seaforth man is in a critical condition with life-threatening head injuries at the Mackay Base Hospital following a single-vehicle accident.

The motorcycle the man was riding crashed on Cape Hillsborough Road about 10pm on Saturday.

The name of a Victorian man who died last Tuesday afternoon, 5km north of Clairview on the Bruce Highway, has not been released.

bron: www.themorningbulletin.com.au [8-9-2009]