Update: Fatal traffic crash, Proserpine

A man has died following a traffic crash that occurred yesterday morning in Proserpine.

Officers were called to the Bruce Highway around 2 kilometres south of Proserpine shortly after 6am after two 4WDs collided.

Both drivers were treated for non-life threatening injures.

As police were responding to the initial crash, a second crash occurred around 200 meters south of the first crash site.

The driver of one of the three vehicles involved in the second crash, an 80-year-old man, was airlifted to Townsville Hospital in a critical condition yesterday morning but was pronounced deceased later in the afternoon.

Investigations by the Forensic Crash Unit are continuing.

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