{"id":286180,"date":"2025-11-15T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286180\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T12:53:11","slug":"teenager-dead-and-another-fighting-for-life-after-car-collides-with-truck-on-queenslands-bruce-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286180\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dead and another fighting for life after car collides with truck on Queensland\u2019s Bruce Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A teenager is dead and another seriously injured after the car they were travelling in collided with a truck on a major highway in <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/qld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Queensland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Two men, both 18, were in a Mitsubishi Lancer sedan travelling southbound on the Bruce Highway when it crashed with a semi-trailer turning onto Sams Road in Mount Pleasant about 1am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The man from Mount Pleasant suffered multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The other man, from Blacks Beach, sustained significant life-threatening head injuries and was rushed to Mackay Base Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The truck driver, a man in his 30s, was uninjured and declined to be taken to hospital, Queensland Ambulance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Investigations are ongoing, and anyone with information or dashcam footage is urged to come forward.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/motorbike-rider-dies-in-high-speed-crash-during-police-pursuit-in-zetland-sydney-c-20683785\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Motorbike rider, 19, dies after crashing into van while fleeing cops<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/pregnant-pedestrian-and-unborn-baby-killed-as-cars-collide-in-hornsby-carpark-c-20683382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Eight-months pregnant pedestrian and unborn baby killed in carpark collision<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager is dead and another seriously injured after the car they were travelling in collided with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3698,43,44,8690,4106,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-286180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-car-accidents","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-queensland-news","tag-queensland-police","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286180","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=286180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}