A truck driver has died after crashing into the side of a residential unit block on one of Toowoomba’s busiest roads. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency services were alerted about 1:15pm Friday after receiving reports a truck travelling eastbound collided with a white SUV travelling in the opposite direction, before crashing into a residential unit block on James Street near Clifford Gardens Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n
Police said in a statement that the driver, a man in his 50s, died at the scene.<\/p>\n
A woman who was inside the unit at the time was treated for shock. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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A truck crashed into a unit block on James Street. (ABC Southern Qld: Peter Gunders)<\/p>\n
Queensland Fire Department Superintendent Kent Barron said it was “early days” and police would investigate the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n
“There’s been sustained damage to the corner of the unit and we will shore that building up and see what we can to do enable the residents to return,” he said.<\/p>\n
Car overturns<\/p>\n
Superintendent Barron said it had been a busy afternoon for emergency services in Toowoomba with numerous incidents across the city.<\/p>\n
Two other unrelated crashes were reported along Toowoomba’s busy Anzac Avenue.<\/p>\n
One person suffered minor injures, and a car was left on its roof when two cars collided at the roundabout of Anzac Avenue, West Street, and Russell Street at about 1:15pm.<\/p>\n
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A vehicle ended up on its roof next to a service station at a busy Toowoomba roundabout. (ABC News: Peter Sanders)<\/p>\n
At the same time, one person was taken to hospital in a stable condition when two cars collided at the intersection of Anzac Avenue and Alderley Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I guess it’s a timely reminder for people to be really careful on our roads,” Superintendent Barron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A truck driver has died after crashing into the side of a residential unit block on one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,43856,43855,43857,44,14586,43854],"class_list":["post-52359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clifford-gardens-shopping-centre","tag-crashes","tag-james-street","tag-news","tag-truck-crash","tag-truck-crashes-into-retirement-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52359","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=52359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}