Three teenagers killed in Queensland crash while attempting to overtake truck
Two 19-year-old men and a 19-year-old woman died at the scene in Mackay, more than 800km north of Brisbane, after a crash involving multiple vehicles late on Friday night.
The teens had attempted to overtake a semi-trailer driving in the same direction while driving south on the Mackay Ring Round near Glenella, in the city's west, police said.
They collided with a Great Wall Cannon ute travelling in the opposite direction, driven by a 29-year-old man, police said.
Emergency services were called to the scene just after 10.40pm on Friday and the man was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
An Isuzu D-Max veered off the road to avoid the crash but its occupants were not injured, police said. The semi-trailer driver, 68, was also uninjured.
Queensland police said Mackay's forensic crash unit was investigating the collision.
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