Police are questioning the driver of a car that failed to stop after a fatal crash killed an elderly man in southern Queensland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the New England Highway at Glen Aplin near Stanthorpe after a car rolled and smashed into a power pole just before 2pm on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Initial investigations indicate an SUV travelling south swerved off the highway when an oncoming car drove towards them on the wrong side of the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police say the driver took evasive action to avoid a crash, with the vehicle hitting a culvert and rolling several times before impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 92-year-old male passenger died in the crash and an 85-year-old female passenger was critically injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old female driver suffered minor injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officers allege the other vehicle, a light-coloured sedan, failed to stop and continued driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a public appeal, police located the vehicle and its owner on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 84-year-old man is assisting with police enquiries into the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any witnesses or motorists with dashcam footage are urged to contact police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Total road deaths in Queensland this year have now risen to 114 people, compared to 89 at the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are questioning the driver of a car that failed to stop after a fatal crash killed an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,319402,319400,44,319403,319401,10587,319404],"class_list":["post-661170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal-crash-queensland","tag-glen-aplin-fatal-crash","tag-news","tag-queensland-police-road-toll","tag-queensland-road-toll","tag-road-safety","tag-stanthorpe-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661170","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=661170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}