Qld: Teenaged motorcyclist killed in crash with 4WD

AAP General News (Australia)
04-08-2006
Qld: Teenaged motorcyclist killed in crash with 4WD

BRISBANE, April 8 AAP - A teenager was killed when his motorcycle collided with a four-wheel
drive in south-east Queensland.

The latest fatality came as police released the names of four people killed in an earlier
accident also in the state's south-east.

The accident involving the motorcyclist occurred at 8am (AEST) today at the intersection
of Burtons Road and Yandina Bli Bli Road at Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast.

The 18-year-old man was travelling northbound when his motorcycle collided with the
four-wheel drive, police said.

He was taken to Nambour Hospital with critical injuries and died shortly after arrival.

In the earlier accident, three men and a woman died when the car they were travelling
in veered off a road before slamming into a power pole at Biddeston, near Toowoomba on
the Darling Downs, just before 2pm (AEST) yesterday.

Those killed were Michael Gary Blockley, 20, of Clifton, Neil Lachland Teske, 18, of
Toowoomba, Michael Bruce Donaldson, 26, of Toowoomba and the woman, Stevie Lee Watson,
23, of Gatton.

Another occupant of the car, a 21-year-old Toowoomba man, was airlifted to Brisbane's
Princess Alexandra Hospital where he remained in a critical condition.

The five were travelling on Cecil Plains Road about 30km west of Toowoomba to work
at the nearby Beef City abattoir when the 20-year-old driver lost control of his Holden
Commodore.

It is believed he was overtaking another vehicle and swerved back into the left-hand
lane after seeing another car approach in the opposite direction.

The vehicle drove onto a dirt shoulder, rolled, hit an embankment, became airborne
and struck a power pole.

The impact snapped the pole in half two metres above the ground, police said.

It took emergency crews more than half an hour to free the injured man from the crumpled,
upturned wreckage.

Police said the driver was believed to have been travelling at high speed when the
accident occurred.

Investigations are continuing.

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