The sole survivor of the horrific triple-fatality car crash on Queensland’s Bruce Highway has been charged for stealing a car involved in the collision, as police treat it as a domestic violence-related homicide.
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UPDATE 4.50PM: The Bruce Highway remains blocked in both directions after a two truck crash.
A Queensland Police Services spokesman confirmed both lanes were blocked just north of the Waverley Creek rest area, with no indication of when the road would reopen.
INITIAL: Emergency services are responding to reports two trucks have collided on the Bruce Highway between Rockhampton and Mackay.
Three Queensland Fire and Emergency Services crews as well as Queensland Ambulance, Queensland Police and a Marlborough SES crew are responding to the scene at St Lawrence, north of the Waverley Creek rest area.
The incident occurred just after 3pm and the first crew on scene reported one semi had jack-knifed in the middle of the road.
Both cars had one occupant each.
A 51-year-old Widgee man died at the scene.
In the moments following the crash, a 28-year-old Lagoon Pocket woman left her vehicle to help the drivers.
A third car then crashed into the two stationary cars, causing injury to both the women and the driver of the second car, a 54-year-old Amamoor Creek man.
Both people were injured and taken to Gympie Hospital.
The driver of the third car was not injured.
The Forensic Crash Unit will be investigating both crashes separately.
Meanwhile, another crash on the Bruce Highway at Cooran caused delays overnight.