{"id":8725,"date":"2025-07-20T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:34:13","slug":"update-fatal-traffic-crash-central-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8725\/","title":{"rendered":"Update &#8211; Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a class=\"featured-image \" href=\"https:\/\/mypolice.qld.gov.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20220621_103825710_iOS_2025-07-20_17-29-08.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"Update \u2013 Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands\" aria-label=\"Update \u2013 Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands\"><br \/>\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"921\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20220621_103825710_iOS_2025-07-20_17-29-08-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Update \u2013 Fatal traffic crash, Central Highlands\"  \/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forensic Crash Unit investigations are continuing following a fatal traffic crash resulting in the deaths of four people including two children in the Central Highlands earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10.50am police and emergency services responded to a two-vehicle traffic crash on the Capricorn Highway, between Comet and Blackwater.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations indicate a Holden Commodore travelling towards Blackwater with four occupants struck a Toyota Hilux utility containing two occupants travelling in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 28-year-old man, 6-year-old boy, 7-year-old girl and 32-year-old man died as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The ute\u2019s occupants, a 28-year-old man has been taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition, and a 27-year-old man has been flown to Brisbane for treatment to life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Capricorn Highway remains closed in both directions and is expected to remain closed into the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forensic Crash Unit investigations are continuing following a fatal traffic crash resulting in the deaths of four people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-8725","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\/8725","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=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}