SYDNEY, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Three people died and one other was hospitalized in separate traffic collisions within a six-hour span in the Australian state of Queensland on Wednesday.
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) said in a statement on Thursday that a 27-year-old man died when his vehicle left the road and struck a tree in the southern suburbs of Brisbane around 7:35 p.m. local time on Wednesday night.
Earlier on Wednesday, the QPS said a 63-year-old woman was killed shortly after 2 p.m. in a three-vehicle crash in the small town of Wamuran, 50 km north of Brisbane.
Police said that the woman was one of two people standing outside their parked vehicles when she and the vehicles were struck by a third car.
She died at the scene. A 22-year-old man was assisting police with inquiries into the incident.
Another woman, aged 72, died when the vehicle she was driving collided head-on with a utility in the nearby town of Armstrong Creek around 1:55 p.m, police said.
The driver of the utility, a 54-year-old woman, was transported to a Brisbane hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to the latest official data, as of Wednesday, 202 people had died in incidents on Queensland roads so far in 2026, up from 187 at the same point in both 2025 and 2024.
Police said that investigations into all three incidents on Wednesday are ongoing. ■