A 30-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl have died, while another passenger remains in intensive care, in the remote Aboriginal community of Doomadgee after a serious traffic crash.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to Doomadgee Road, 400 kilometres north of Mount Isa, at about 6:30am following reports a vehicle had flipped and crashed.<\/p>\n
The driver and four passengers were located with serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver, a 30-year-old Cloncurry woman, was administered first aid but died at the scene.<\/p>\n
A passenger, a 10-year-old girl, was transported to Doomadgee Hospital where she was declared deceased.<\/p>\n
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Doomadgee is an Aboriginal community in outback North West Queensland. (ABC News: Julia Andre)<\/p>\n
Two other passengers were transported to Doomadgee Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and a third passenger is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
A crime scene has been declared and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
A 28-year-old man known to the deceased was taken into custody shortly after.<\/p>\n
Police are urging the community to remain respectful as investigations continue.<\/p>\n
The Queensland Police Service is supporting the Doomadgee community and local officers at this time.<\/p>\n
Shops in the community have closed for Sorry Business, and Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council has shared condolences to the families who lost loved ones on social media.<\/p>\n
The council has also asked residents to avoid the Doomadgee Road highway until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl have died, while another passenger remains in intensive care, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[156297,64,63,42840,156294,156295,156296,10470,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-268058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-aboriginal-community","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-car-crash","12":"tag-doomadgee","13":"tag-doomadgee-car-crash","14":"tag-doomadgee-death","15":"tag-fatal-crash","16":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268058","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=268058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}