Overview
- Two teenagers were critically injured and eight others hurt in a four-vehicle collision on Maryborough–Hervey Bay Road at Susan River, according to police.
- Investigators allege a 14-year-old boy was driving a white Mitsubishi Lancer that lost control, moved onto the wrong side, clipped a Suzuki Swift, and then hit a Hyundai Kona, with a Volkswagen Polo also struck.
- Emergency crews freed trapped occupants, treated ten people, and coordinated hospital transfers that included helicopter airlifts for the two most seriously hurt.
- Police have opened an investigation and urged anyone with information or dashcam footage to contact authorities to help confirm the sequence of events.
- A toddler was among those taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and a senior officer noted the crash fell on the anniversary of a 2023 Maryborough triple fatal involving a young driver.