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Drivers are being urged to avoid making “reckless” decisions amid a deadly start to the year’s state road toll, and Gympie motorists’ behaviour is among the worst in the Wide Bay.
Police data shows 25 dangerous driving crimes recorded in the Gympie police division in 2020, an average rate of five people charged per 100,000 residents every month of the year.
While this may sound small it has placed the region in a tie with Bundaberg for the highest rate of dangerous driving in the Wide Bay Burnett, and on par with the Queensland average.
The call for safer driving follows a horror start to the road toll: 50 people have been killed on Queensland’s roads in the first 64 days of the year, 18 more than for the same time last year.
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Two people have been taken to hospital following a motorbike crash at Coles Creek on Sunday morning.
The pair were reportedly injured when they were thrown from the motorbike near the intersection of Coles Creek Rd and Maguires Lane, near the Bruce Highway overpass, about 10.50am.
A Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman said one of the patients suffered an knee injury in the crash; the other patient’s injuries were unknown.
The pair were taken to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital in stable conditions.
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