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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.
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Subscriber only IPSWICH police are preparing to launch a long-term operation in a bid to end anti-social behaviour at a local shopping complex. Shopkeepers and other business owners trading from the Rededge Shopping Centre in Goodna claim they are regularly subjected to verbal abuse from juveniles in their early teens loitering in the complex. An employee at one of the shops told the Queensland Times she had seen teenagers hanging around and pestering people for money. A Queensland Police Services spokeswoman confirmed police had received a number of complaints in recent months relating to the anti-social behaviour at the shopping centre.
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Subscriber only A car towing a caravan has crashed into a ditch on the Bruce Highway at Roys Rd, sparking major traffic delays for Sunshine Coast motorists. The crash comes on top of congestion problems at the usual suspect spots from Beerburrum to Beerwah and Caboolture to Elimbah. A Queensland Police Services spokesman said the crash happened in the southbound lanes north of the Roys Rd interchange. A car towing a caravan reportedly swerved to miss a vehicle and went into the median strip, he said. There were no injuries.