A woman injured in a crash near Tuchekoi appears to be out of the woods, with the hospital revealing her status has gone from critical to serious but stable
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.
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The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the serious traffic crash at Tuchekoi on Tuesday afternoon that hospitalised a man and a woman.
Preliminary investigations indicate around 2:50pm a white Nissan Navara dual cab utility was headed north on Kenilworth Skyring Creek Road when it collided with a blue Holden Commodore travelling in the opposite direction. Rescue helicopter landed at the site of the serious traffic crash near Tuchekoi.
The driver of the sedan, a woman, was airlifted to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital and
remains in a critical condition as of 2:30pm Jun 2, 2021.
The driver of the utility, a man in his 30s, was also transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.
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UPDATE: A man and a woman driving a ute and a sedan that collided head-on near a corner of the Kenilworth Skyring Creek Road south of Gympie at Tuchekoi on Tuesday afternoon have been rushed to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
The woman, who had to be freed from her car by emergency services, was critically injured in the collision which occurred just before 3pm.
She was airlifted from the scene about 4pm and taken to the SCUH. A man in his 30s suffering from a leg injury was transported by ambulance and in a stable condition, also to the SCUH.
The crash near Tuchekoi on Tuesday afternoon that left a woman critically injured is now being investigated by the Forensic Crash Unit. Police are asking witnesses to come forward with any information.