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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. ....
Rainbow Beach community stalwart Tony Stewart was last month preparing to launch a petition to push the State Government into action about the road between Gympie, Rainbow Beach and Tin Can Bay. That petition is now live on the Queensland Parliament website, tabled by Mr Stewart and sponsored by Gympie MP Tony Perrett. 2019 Gympie Citizen of the Year Tony Stewart has been instrumental in bringing the petition forward. As of Sunday night the petition had attracted 556 signatures since launching on March 30, with plenty of time still to go before it closes on September 30. “Statistics show this road is the second most dangerous road in Wide Bay, marginally behind the Bruce Highway. There has been 14 deaths between 2011 and 2018 and 312 crashes between 2001 and 2019, equating to one crash every three weeks,” the petition description reads. ....
Casey Dobson (left) in touch football days. Hammers president Jason McPherson said Dobsonâs feat was all the more impressive because it was her very first year playing senior womenâs rugby. âCaseyâs only in her first year in the senior womenâs, and sheâs got an opportunity to represent Gympie which is just tremendous,â McPherson said. âSheâs come from the touch football background, sheâs a very good sprinter. I think she was a state representative in both. âSheâs got speed to burn. Itâs tremendous, to think this is coming off the base of the school rugby implemented in town.â ....
The Falcon, a GT RPO 83 model, was one of just 120 built in the 1970s for the original purchase price of about $4600. Fast forward almost 50 years and the rare Ford has gone up for auction, where it could command more than half a million dollars from its next owner. A 1973 Ford Falcon has sat in a Mary Valley garage for almost three decades and could now be worth more than half a million dollars. Photos: 7NEWS One of the current owners told 7NEWS the Falcon held a great deal of sentimental value since his father, who did work for the Ford Motor Group all those years ago, ended up with the keys. ....