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REGIONAL voices will be heard in a group formed to future-proof the Bruce Highway.
The Daily Mercury did a series of stories on how the North, Central and Far North Queensland were not represented in a government group formed to future-proof the Bruce Highway.
At the time Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto described the lack of regional representation as “outrageous”.
In an announcement made in Rockhampton on Wednesday Assistant Minister for Regional Roads Bruce Saunders said the trust would be expanded to incorporate regional voices.
Nominations have opened as the Department of Transport and Main Roads searches for six regional representatives to join the Advisory Council, which is tasked with identifying the upgrades most important to Queenslanders and dividing a pool of more than $1 billion annually to projects along the stretch of road. Nominees must regularly use the highway or live along its corridor north of Gympie and have experience in road safety or reg
The crash just north of Gympie on the Bruce Highway involved two drivers, and a witness has described the driver’s side of one of the cars as “obliterated’
The whole truck flew over the edge, crashing down, kind of gracefully, actually, Mr Lewis said. The Bruce Highway at Bakers Creek bridge was closed for several hours after a truck crashed through a guardrail and overturned in Bakers Creek. I jumped out of the car and called emergency services. The 27-year-old jumped over the guardrail himself and went straight for the truck, joined by another man Thomas, a backpacker who had been travelling behind the truck. I thought there s no way someone could have survived that, Mr Lewis said. The rising tide in Bakers Creek where Fraser Lewis and other bystanders rescued a man fro a truck that veered off the Bruce Highway about 5.20am Sunday.
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Subscriber only A mother intentionally driving while high on drugs, a popular teen run over on a suburban street - these are among Mackay and Whitsunday s tragic road toll for 2020. Fatal crashes spiked from 11 deaths in 2019 to 24 last year within the district despite lockdowns imposed under COVID-19 restrictions. That s a significant jump, Mackay Forensic Crash Unit officer in charge Sergeant Michael Hollett said. A man died following a truck rollover on Homebush Rd, Homebush on Friday October 23. Picture: Heidi Petith So why was 2020 such a horror year? That s the key question because we had a big period of lockdown, Sgt Hollett said.