Police are investigating the deaths of three people killed in a high-speed crash less than a week after a family of five perished on a Queensland road.
The driver of the Honda, a 62-year-old South Bingera woman, and her 63-year-old female passenger, also died at the scene.
A 65-year-old man who had been a passenger in the Honda was taken to Bundaberg Base Hospital with serious injuries.
A 65-year-old Pine Creek woman, who had been driving the Hyundai, suffered minor injuries.
Wide Bay Senior Operations Supervisor Gavin Becker said it is a difficult situation for emergency crews to respond to these types of incidents, seeing “death and human suffering”.
“Consequences of a high-speed impact like this are often fatal, if not fatal, (occupants can be) left with severe injuries that are long-lasting,” Mr Becker told the Courier-Mail.
“These three vehicles have had a significant impact which has resulted in five patients being injured…. Of those five patients unfortunately three are deceased.
Investigating is the police forensic crash unit.
The event comes after a lady and her four children died in a car wreck last week, which authorities are currently investigating as a possible murder-suicide.
On Monday, the family was killed in a head-on collision near Kingaroy with a truck.
In the last week, fifteen people have died on Queensland’s highways.
