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Six kids die in horror week on Qld roads

A little boy has been struck and killed by a car in regional Queensland, following ten deaths on the state’s roads in one catastrophic week.

May 30, 2019

A one-year-old boy has been hit by a car and killed in regional Queensland, the 11th victim of a car accident in a horror week that’s claimed the lives of six children.

The toddler was hit by a reversing car near the entrance to the old Chinchilla sawmill on Edward St, which is being redeveloped into an industrial site.

Paramedics pronounced the child dead at the scene and said a 71-year-old man driving the vehicle was taken to hospital suffering “emotional distress”. 

Ten other people have been killed on Queensland’s roads this week in a horror streak before an annual safety initiative, Fatality Free Friday.

The boy was hit about 10.45 am, after which paramedics were called to the truck-filled industrial lot, northwest of Toowoomba, with reports of a vehicle and pedestrian crash.

A family friend, who preferred not to be identified, told AAP the family was “utterly devastated”.

Police Superintendent Dave Johnson says the fatalities are absolutely tragic and they must stop.

“There’s no reason to lose that many lives on our roads at any time period. There’s no excuses for it, there’s no reason for it,” Supt Johnson said.

“We want it to stop right now.”

This death comes after a 14-year-old boy died in a crash in a stolen car on Wednesday and four children lost their lives in a crash with their mum on Monday.

A 14-year-old was allegedly at the wheel of the stolen car that crashed on Brisbane’s bayside, killing the boy in the front passenger seat and injuring four girls, the youngest just 10.

The teenage driver was stable in the Queensland Children’s Hospital on Thursday and has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, unlicensed driving and failing to stop for a red traffic light.

The 10-year-old girl has also been charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle

A mother, 26, and her four children who were in the second car, escaped serious injury.

Supt Johnson said on Thursday he was concerned about underage drivers and people overloading cars.

“It’s telling us the choices that drivers make behind the wheel are not the smartest choices,” Supt Johnson said.

“The decisions they are taking at times are putting their lives and the lives of others at risk.” 

On Tuesday, a man, 20, died in Bundaberg when his car hit a tree.

On Wednesday night, an 86-year-old man died at Lake Eacham in Queensland’s far north when his car hit an oncoming truck.

A Glenmorgan man, 78, was killed after he swerved to avoid a kangaroo and slammed into a tree on Tuesday.

The worst of the crashes happened south of Kingaroy on Monday, when mother Charmaine Harris McLeod, 35, and her children Aaleyn, 6, Matilda, 5, Wyatt, 4, and Zaidok, 2, died when their car hit an oncoming truck.

In another fatal accident involving a truck in the same area on Wednesday a 62-year-old man’s ute collided with a prime mover.

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