June 16, 2014

Police and emergency services personnel were kept busy at the weekend after a spate of potentially serious traffic crashes in the Nanango – Yarraman area:

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An empty Kenworth B-double on its way up the D’Aguilar Highway to collect a load of fruit overturned about a kilometre south of Yarraman on Saturday morning.

Police said the driver, a 53-year-old Ipswich man, was not hurt when his Victorian-registered truck left the highway and rolled on its side.

One lane of the highway was closed, and SES members controlled traffic, while a diesel spill was cleared from the roadway.

Special truck tow trucks were called from Toowoomba to clear the wreckage.

Blackbutt SES members, Qld Fire and Emergency Services, Transport and Mains Roads inspectors, South Burnett Regional Council staff as well as local police attended the scene.

Police investigations into the incident are continuing.

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Also on Saturday, a three-vehicle crash occurred at roadworks on the D’Aguilar Highway, near the intersection with Berlins Road, about 11:30am.

A 78-year-old Nanango man has been issued with an infringement notice for failing to have proper control of his vehicle.

Police said the man was driving down the hill and applied his brakes, but his vehicle – which was pulling a trailer – hit the rear of a vehicle already stopped at the red light.

The impact pushed this vehicle into a third vehicle.

A female passenger in the first car was taken by ambulance to Kingaroy Hospital for medical assessment.

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At 12:30pm on Sunday, two vehicles travelling in opposite directions were involved in a collision on the D’Aguilar Highway near Nanango.

Police said one vehicle sideswiped the other, causing damage to a trailer that it was towing. No one was injured in this incident.

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On Sunday evening,  a young man and woman were taken to Kingaroy Hospital with suspected fractures after a single vehicle crash on the Nanango-Tarong Road.

The incident occurred about 10km from Nanango.

The male passenger was trapped for some time when the vehicle left the road and hit a tree.

QFES personnel had to cut him from the vehicle.

Police investigations are continuing.

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