{"id":353160,"date":"2024-09-29T18:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=353160"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:27:12","slug":"driver-dies-in-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2024\/09\/29\/driver-dies-in-hospital-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Dies In Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353130\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-353130\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash.jpg 740w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash-285x177.jpg 285w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash-340x211.jpg 340w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240926crash-263x163.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency services at the crash site on Thursday morning (Photo: LifeFlight \/ QAS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>September 29, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A driver critically injured in a crash on the Bunya Highway on September 26 has died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 single-vehicle crash occurred between Kumbia and Bell, near Sinclairs Road.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called just before 11:30am after reports a car had crashed into a tree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The driver, a 20-year-old Wattle Ridge man, was located with life-threatening injuries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A rescue helicopter called to scene airlifted the injured man to the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2024\/09\/26\/driver-critically-injured\/\">Driver Critically Injured<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>QAS paramedics transported an injured motorbike rider to Kingaroy Hospital in a stable condition on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the incident on the D&#8217;Aguilar Highway near Yarraman just before 3:00pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver critically injured in a crash on the Bunya Highway on September 26 has died in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":353130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[25,228,81,73,1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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