{"id":688809,"date":"2026-05-23T05:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688809\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:01:42","slug":"port-douglas-news-woman-25-and-baby-dead-following-crash-in-far-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688809\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Douglas news: Woman, 25, and baby dead following crash in Far North Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeff woman and a baby have died, with another woman in a serious condition, following a crash in Far North Queensland yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to the Captain Cook Highway shortly before 4pm yesterday following reports of a two-car crash.<\/p>\n<p>Early investigations into the collision indicate that a Mitsubishi Triton utility struck a Mazda MX-5 before colliding with an MG3 hatchback south of the intersection of Reynolds Road.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old female driver of the MG\ufeff and her infant passenger died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old female passenger was airlifted to Cairns Hospital in a critical condition\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old male utility driver was also taken to Cairns Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old male Mazda driver and his 57-year-old female passenger did not sustain any physical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeff woman and a baby have died, with another woman in a serious condition, following a crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-688809","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\/688809","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=688809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}