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UPDATE 7PM THURS: A driver who lost their arm in a horror head-on crash on the Peak Downs Highway remains in a critical condition at Mackay Base Hospital. The collision between a car and a semi-trailer happened near Coppabella about 8am Tuesday.
UPDATE 3PM: The Peak Downs Highway has reopened at Coppabella after a driver lost their arm in a horror head-on crash about 8am Tuesday.
UPDATE 11.20AM: A driver who had to be cut from the wreckage of a crumpled ute during a horror head-on smash on the Peak Downs Highway has lost his arm.
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UPDATE 12.30PM: A man who died at the scene of a horror collision on the Peak Downs Highway west of Mackay has been identified as a Clermont local.
The Clermont man, 35, died at the scene of the crash about 3km west of Fiery Creek at Nebo about 1.30am.
He was the sole occupant of a grey dual cab utility which had been travelling west on the highway when it and an oncoming truck collided.
The 42-year-old Mirani man who was driving the truck suffered minor injuries.
Police said the forensic crash unit was investigating the deadly collision.