February 9, 2016
A woman has died in a head-on crash on the Wide Bay Highway at Cinnabar on Tuesday afternoon.
Initial information suggests about 3:45pm, two vehicles, one travelling west and one travelling east, collided about one kilometre east of Wide Bay Creek.
The driver and sole occupant of one vehicle, a 71-year-old woman from Goomeri, died at the scene.
A man and a woman aged in their 60s, who were travelling in the other vehicle, were flown to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Rescue 500 helicopter took the female patient to Royal Brisbane Hospital; the male patient was flown by RACQ CareFlight to Nambour Hospital. Both travelled in a stable condition.
The Wide Bay Highway was blocked in both directions for several hours, with SES volunteers re-directing traffic.
The highway fully re-opened to traffic about 9:00pm.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating.
