{"id":8253,"date":"2025-07-20T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8253\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:07:09","slug":"fatal-traffic-crash-central-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8253\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a class=\"featured-image \" href=\"https:\/\/mypolice.qld.gov.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Led-closeup-2_2025-07-20_13-04-39.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands\" aria-label=\"Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands\"><br \/>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"921\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Led-closeup-2_2025-07-20_13-04-39-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands\"  \/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four people have died following a fatal traffic crash in the Central Highlands this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10.50am police and emergency services were called to Capricorn Highway, between Comet and Blackwater, following reports of a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>Four people died at the scene and two people were transported to Emerald Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Capricorn Highway is closed in both directions and is expected to remain closed for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the complexity of the incident, there is no further information available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have died following a fatal traffic crash in the Central Highlands this morning. Around 10.50am police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-8253","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\/8253","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=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}