{"id":105335,"date":"2025-08-29T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105335\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:46:11","slug":"one-person-killed-another-seriously-injured-after-separate-freak-incidents-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105335\/","title":{"rendered":"One person killed, another seriously injured after separate freak incidents in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died and another is critically injured after two accidents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland \">Queensland<\/a> overnight.<\/p>\n<p>A 72-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle motorbike crash \ufeffin Lakefield, north Queensland, at 1.30pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports from the crash revealed the rider lost control \ufeffof the motorbike on a dirt track, causing him to crash.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e9e2fa7c-99b7-47fb-8a10-0ff616226ad1.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>One person has died and another is critically injured after two freak accidents in Queensland overnight.  (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>The man, a Canadian national, \ufeffdied at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate \ufeffcrash in Bayview Heights, further down the coast, a woman was run over by a car.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a home in Glen Close at 5pm after reports of a woman being hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the woman was trying to stop the car from rolling down the driveway when it crushed her.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThere was no one driving in the vehicle at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old woman was trans[orted to Cairns Hospital in a critical condition, where she remains.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffQueensland Police&#8217;s forensic crash unit are investigating both accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and another is critically injured after two accidents in Queensland overnight. A 72-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-105335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}