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Tragedy as a 17-year-old boy is killed in a horrific crash in Queensland – with five others also rushed to hospital
A teenage boy is dead after losing control of his ute and slamming into two oncoming vehicles in Queensland‘s Southern Downs region.
Five other people were injured in the horror highway crash at Gladfield near Warwick around 2.40pm on Sunday.
The driver and sole occupant of the ute, 17, from the town of Texas 170km away suffered critical injuries and and couldn’t be revived at the scene.
The impact of the crash caused one of the other vehicles to be upturned and land on its roof.
The crash on the Cunningham Highway near Gladfield Back Road prompted a large response from multiple emergency services, including a rescue helicopter.
The five occupants from the other vehicles were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Emergency responders were confronted with harrowing scenes.
‘It was a mess,’ a local farm worker told the Warwick Daily News.
‘One car was upside down in the middle of the road, another was on its side on the side of the road and there was a ute in the middle.
‘It wasn’t pretty.’
Cunningham Highway was closed in both directions for several hours as the carnage was cleared.
An investigation into the fatal crash has been launched.
Police have appealed for any witnesses or motorists with dashcam footage to come forward.
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