Four people have died and a toddler remains in hospital after a series of traffic accidents overnight.
About 9pm on Saturday, police were called to a head-on collision on School Road in Logan Reserve between an eastbound silver Ford Falcon ute and a grey Ford Focus.
A 51-year-old woman from Victoria – a passenger in the Ford Focus – died at the scene.
Another passenger, a two-year-old girl, suffered significant head injuries and was flown to Queensland Children’s Hospital in a potentially life-threatening condition.
A female patient in her 20s – also believed to be a passenger in the Ford Focus – was treated for minor injuries and taken to Logan Hospital.
Police said the driver, a 28-year-old Goodna man, was uninjured.
A Queensland police spokesperson said the ute’s driver, a 17-year-old Logan Reserve girl, also escaped physical injury, while three of her passengers were assessed at the scene.
One, a girl in her teens who suffered significant leg injuries, was taken in a potentially life-threatening condition to Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Another teenage girl suffering head injuries, and a teenage boy suffering head and chest injuries, were both taken to Logan Hospital in stable conditions.
Hours earlier, officers were called to a separate fatal crash south-east of Brisbane, in which a black Honda motorbike and a white Kia Cerato collided on Boundary Road at Thornlands.
The bike’s 18-year-old rider – a Redland Bay local – was taken by helicopter to Princess Alexandra Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries shortly after arriving.
Police said the crash happened just after the car turned onto Boundary Road from Abeya Street, and its driver – a 24-year-old man from Acacia Ridge – was not physically injured.
In Brisbane’s south on Saturday night, an 83-year-old man succumbed to injuries he suffered during a serious crash in Wishart on Thursday morning.
The man had been travelling with one passenger, an 86-year-old woman, along Mount Gravatt Capalaba Road when he tried to turn the vehicle onto Broadwater Road but instead veered off the road into a tree.
The pair, both from Wellington Point, were rushed to Princess Alexandra Hospital.
The woman remains in a critical condition, and investigations are continuing.
In the state’s far north, a 31-year-old man died following a quad bike rollover at Palmerston, a rural community about 110 kilometres south of Cairns.
Officers were called to the single-vehicle crash on Pullom Road about 5pm and discovered a green Kawasaki quad bike had hit a pole.
The man – a Palmerston local – was declared dead at the scene.
Queensland ambulance officers also responded to a number of other serious incidents on Saturday evening, including another quad bike crash in Toowoomba, a head-on motorbike collision in the Southern Downs region, and a single-vehicle crash in which two people were thrown from the vehicle in Greenbank.
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