Statistics from day 6 of the Christmas Road Safety campaign have police reminding motorist to slow down and obey speed limits after a motorcycle was detected travelling 215km in 110km zone on the Bruce Highway, Glass House Mountains. During the Christmas Holiday Period, Queensland Police will enforce high risk road user behaviour including the fatal […]
Police have located the 13-year-old girl missing from Bundamba since Saturday, December 26. She was located safe and well overnight and has been reunited with her family.
UPDATE – the missing girl was located safe and well on the evening on December 29. Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenager missing from Riverview since Christmas day. The teenage girl was last seen by family late on Christmas night. She left the family home after an argument. She is 15-years-old and […]
Police are renewing their appeal for public assistance to help locate a 13-year-old girl missing from Bundamba since Saturday, December 26. The girl was last seen around 10am that same day at the Woodridge Railway Station. Police hold serious concerns for her welfare as she suffers from a medical condition She is described as Caucasian […]
Police investigating an attempted armed robbery that occurred at Ellen Grove on December 24 have charged two men. It will be alleged that around 8.30am, a man armed with a firearm entered a Post Office on Waterford Road, threatened a male employee and demanded cash. The employee dived under the front counter and the man […]
Detectives have charged a man following a fire at a residence in Torquay last night. Initial reports indicate at around 9:00pm a fire has started in the kitchen of a Sunset Crescent residence. Emergency Services attended the residence and were able to supress the fire before it spread throughout the house. Police conducted patrols with […]
Police are currently on the scene of a fatal aircraft crash at Norwell. Police responded to reports around 9.25am that a plane had crashed in a field off Kerkin Road North. It is believed that two men were on-board at the time of the incident. One man was located deceased at the scene, and another […]
Detectives investigating a shooting incident in the car park of a Merrimac restaurant earlier this month have today charged a 23-year-old man with attempted murder. Around 3.40pm on December 6 police responded to reports of a vehicle being shot at in the Gooding Drive car park. A 24-year-old man, the passenger of the vehicle, received […]
An emergency declaration and two kilometre exclusion zone remains in place at Julia Creek following the derailing of a freight train yesterday morning. The emergency situation, declared under the Public Safety Preservation Act at 11.35am yesterday, covers a two kilometre exclusion zone around the crash site, which is located approximately 20km east of Julia Creek. […]
Police are urging motorists to slow down and drive to conditions in areas of the state affected by rain. As always, if it’s flooded, forget it! The Christmas Road Safety campaign commenced at 12.01am Wednesday, December 23 and concludes at 11.59pm on Sunday, January 3, 2016. Among the other results was a car detected travelling 110km/h in […]