{"id":252459,"date":"2020-02-10T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=252459"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:36:20","slug":"cigarette-blamed-for-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette Blamed For Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 10, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Kingaroy police were called to the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Hodge and Duke streets at 2:40pm on February 4.<\/p>\n<p>It will be alleged a 39-year-old Hodgleigh man was approaching the give way sign on Hodge Street in a hatchback when he bent down to pick up a dropped cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>The driver then allegedly locked up his brakes before striking a Subaru sedan travelling on Duke Street.<\/p>\n<p>A 79-year-old passenger in the Subaru was transported to hospital for observation.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old man was issued a traffic infringement notice for driving without due care and attention ($533 fine and three demerit points).<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>Drugs<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A 19-year-old Kingaroy man\u00a0will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 2 charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, failing to dispose of syringe, two counts of possessing drug utensils, possessing a dangerous drug and unlawful possession of a restricted drug after police searched a house in Glendon Street on February 3.\u00a0 Police allegedly located\u00a0drug utensils, knuckle dusters and the prescription medicines Quetiapine and Clondine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 34-year-old Kingaroy man and a 44-year-old Kingaroy man will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on February 24 charged with possessing cannabis and drug utensils after police searched an address in Edward Street on February 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At 5:15pm on February 4, police had occasion to speak to a 28-year-old Kingaroy man in Alford Street. Police searched the man and allegedly located a small quantity of cannabis.The man will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 2 charged with possessing a dangerous drug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 40-year-old Cherbourg man\u00a0will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on February 24 charged with possessing a dangerous drug, drug utensils and failing to dispose of a syringe after police detained him at 1:35am on February 9.\u00a0\u00a0The man was allegedly found to be in possession of a small quantity of methylamphetamine, drug utensils and a bag of jewellery. Further investigations are being conducted regarding the jewellery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>Traffic\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A 24-year-old Kingaroy woman\u00a0 will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 30 charged with drug driving after police stopped a hatchback on Haly Street, Kingaroy, at 3:30pm on February 4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 68-year-old West Australian man will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on April 6 charged with drink-driving after police pulled over a station wagon in Knight Street, Kingaroy, at 8:30am on February 5. The man allegedly returned a positive sample to a roadside breath test (0.051 BAC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 61-year-old Coverty man will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on March 30 charged with drug driving after police after police intercepted a sedan in Knight Street, Kingaroy, at 9:45am on February 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 25-year-old Kingaroy woman\u00a0will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on February 24\u00a0charged with drink-driving after police stopped a sedan in Albert Street, Kingaroy, at 1:00am on February 7.\u00a0The woman allegedly returned a positive sample to a roadside breath test (0.056 BAC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a047-year-old Kingaroy man has been charged with driving while under the influence of a liquor or drug and failing to remain at the scene of a crash after an incident in Kelvyn Street, Kingaroy,\u00a0 on February 8. Police were called at 11:15pm after\u00a0the owner of a vehicle stated he was at a party when one of the guests left and reversed into his vehicle in their utility before driving off.\u00a0 The ute was located a short time\u00a0later at a Haly Street address. The driver allegedly returned a positive breath sample (0.281 BAC) and will appear in Kingaroy Magistrates Court on February 24.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Sunday,\u00a0 police located and arrested a 24-year-old year old Nanango man who was wanted after allegedly failing to stop for police on December 9 in Walter Road, Kingaroy.\u00a0The man will appear in Nanango Magistrates Court on March 9, charged with evasion, break and enter of a dwelling and failing to appear in court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>Property\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A 35-year-old Cherbourg man\u00a0will appear in Murgon Magistrates Court on March 3 charged with stealing after police were called to the Carrollee Hotel in Kingaroy on January 8.\u00a0Police will allege the man took winnings from a poker machine he hadn&#8217;t been playing. The man was located and charged on February 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Monday, February 3, police received a complaint from a local school a number of windows had been smashed over the weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also on February 3, police received a complaint from a Haly Street business that a window had been smashed with a bottle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On February 4, 16 louvres were damaged at a business shed in Markwell Street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On February 7, Makita power tools, personal items and a Navman were stolen from a Holden sedan parked in the carport of flats in Haly Street, Kingaroy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kingaroy Police responded to a variety of incidents between February 3-9 including drug, property and traffic-related offences. They also attended six calls related to domestic violence,\u00a0 issued six infringement notices for life-endangering traffic offences and performed 33 roadside breath tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":219647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cigarette Blamed For Crash - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cigarette Blamed For Crash - southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"southburnett.com.au\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-10T07:41:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-11T10:36:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/police4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"385\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/\",\"name\":\"Cigarette Blamed For Crash - southburnett.com.au\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-10T07:41:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-11T10:36:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\"},\"description\":\"A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/\",\"name\":\"southburnett.com.au\",\"description\":\"Kingaroy and South Burnett News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae\",\"name\":\"Anne Miller\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Cigarette Blamed For Crash - southburnett.com.au","description":"A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Cigarette Blamed For Crash - southburnett.com.au","og_description":"A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.","og_url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/","og_site_name":"southburnett.com.au","article_published_time":"2020-02-10T07:41:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-02-11T10:36:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":620,"height":385,"url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/police4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anne Miller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Miller","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/","name":"Cigarette Blamed For Crash - southburnett.com.au","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-02-10T07:41:23+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-11T10:36:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae"},"description":"A dropped cigarette has been blamed for causing a crash in Kingaroy in which a 79-year-old man was taken to hospital.","inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/10\/cigarette-blamed-for-crash\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/","name":"southburnett.com.au","description":"Kingaroy and South Burnett News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/#\/schema\/person\/d43a5027bdddc95f54e9c6274d8a57ae","name":"Anne Miller","url":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/author\/anne-miller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252459"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252610,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252459\/revisions\/252610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}