During day 10 of the Christmas Road Safety Campaign (phase 2), a man died in a fatal crash at Pechey, south of Crows Nest yesterday afternoon. A total of 171 drivers were charged with drink driving out of 12,964 random breath tests performed. The highest of these was five times the legal limit of 0.225% […]
Police will prepare a report for the Coroner after a 54-year-old Runaway Bay man died following a jet ski incident near South Stradbroke this morning. Preliminary inquiries indicate around 8am the man was riding the jet ski on the ocean side of the island when, for an unknown reason, has fallen from the jet ski […]
A man has been charged following investigations into a violent incident at Harristown overnight. Shortly after 12am a 20-year-old man was at a Drayton Road property when he observed a man trying to steal a Mitsubishi Triton utility in the backyard. He confronted the man and attempted to stop him stealing the ute when it […]
The 25-year-old Millstream man who escaped from police custody on December 29 in Ravenshoe has been captured. It is alleged, as he was being transitioned into a secure vehicle for transport to the Mareeba Watchhouse, the man fled from police and was last seen running into nearby bushland. Police chased the man and established cordons […]
Police have charged two teenagers after they allegedly threatened a 30-year-old woman and 17-year-old teenager with a knife and stole their car at Southport this afternoon. It will be alleged at 5.50pm the two female friends parked their car at a shopping centre on Marine Parade. A teenage boy approached the driver as she got […]
Forensic Crash Unit officers are investigating after a man died in a single vehicle crash south of Crows Nest this morning. Preliminary inquiries indicate at 10.20am a van was headed east on Pechey-Maclagan Road near the intersection with the New England Highway when the vehicle has left the road and hit a tree. The driver […]
Update: The missing girl has been located safe and well. Inala police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a 13-year-old girl missing from Inala since 6.30m on Sunday, December 30. The girl is possibly staying with friends with police having an unconfirmed sighting of her at Southbank around 9.30pm last night. She is […]
A man has passed away in hospital from injuries sustained in a single vehicle crash at West Woombye on New Year’s Eve. Around 8.50pm police received reports a car had crashed into a tree on Blackall Range Road. The driver and sole occupant, a 21-year-old West Woombye man, was freed from the vehicle by emergency […]
Detectives have charged a 22-year-old woman following the alleged assault of a man in Yeppoon in the early hours of this morning. Police will allege at around 3.30am emergency services were called to a house in Jeffries Street to treat a man with a chest wound. A 39-year-old man Yeppoon man was transported to hospital […]
Revellers across Queensland were well behaved as the state welcomed 2019. Whilst police across Queensland reported a busy night as people farewelled one year and welcomed another, revellers at major events throughout the state were mostly well behaved. Overall crowds on the Gold Coast were family orientated with large numbers seen at many public events […]