Police are investigating a crash at Kokotungo yesterday which left two people in their 70s hospitalised with serious injuries.
Investigators are appealing for witnesses and dashcam vision of the crash which occurred at around 3.40pm when a white 2019 Hyundai Kona station wagon was travelling east on Baralaba Rannes Road left the roadway at the intersection with Baileys Road.
“The vehicle then travelled through long grass, hitting a drainage culvert and becoming airborne before nose diving and flipping onto its roof,” Queensland Police said in a statement.
“The incident location is approximately 25 minutes west of the township of Baralaba and approximately 10 minutes east of the Leichardt Highway.”
The occupants of the station wagon, a 75-year-old male driver and his 77-year-old wife, were trapped inside the vehicle.
Once extricated, the woman was flown to Rockhampton Hospital in a serious condition and the man was transported to the local hospital before being also being flown to Rockhampton Hospital in a serious condition.
Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the crash or any drivers who were travelling along Baralaba Rannes Road between 3 and 4pm yesterday, and who have dashcam vision, to contact police.
