Queensland Police’s Moral Requirements Command and the Forensic Crash Unit are investigating a bike crash that killed two folks at Helensvale on the Gold Coast in a single day.
Key factors:
- A person and a girl have died following a bike crash early on Saturday morning
- Police say the bike was stolen and {that a} ute discovered on the scene is being forensically examined
- Police had tried to intercept the bike earlier however disengaged after it sped off
A 36-year-old Oxenford man and a 35-year-old Higher Coomera girl died after the bike they had been driving crashed right into a pole on the intersection of Siganto Drive and Helensvale Highway round 1:30 on Saturday morning.
Performing chief superintendent Rhys Wildman stated the bike, believed to have been stolen from Biggera Waters on October 11, was earlier noticed by police at Discovery Drive travelling at excessive speeds.
“Police proceeded to comply with that automobile, bike, onto Helensvale Highway heading westbound,” he stated.
“Police activated their warning units in an try to intercept that specific bike, nevertheless the bike accelerated away.
“Officers instantly disengaged from that tried intercept and shortly after police [came] throughout a bike that had collided with a pole.”
Witness charged with DUI offences
Performing chief superintendent Wildman stated a ute was discovered on the scene.
A 50-year-old Elanora man, who witnessed the crash, has been charged with excessive vary drink driving, driving unlicensed and driving with out prescribed interlock gadget.
He is because of seem earlier than the Southport Magistrates Court docket on December 9.
“All I can say is the utility has been seized and will probably be forensically examined within the coming days to determine precisely whether or not there was any involvement with the utility or not within the collision,” performing chief superintendent Wildman stated.
He stated police did not at all times try to intercept rushing autos by pursuing them and that “there are usually different strategies of monitoring down these offenders”.
“We’re very profitable at monitoring offenders down in stolen autos.”
‘A really traumatic scene’
Performing senior operations supervisor for the Queensland Ambulance Service, Dion Marr, stated essential care paramedics attended the scene however the pair who had been on the bike had been unable to be revived.
“[It was] a very traumatic scene for all emergency companies that arrived there,” he stated.
“The message is to decelerate and take care on our roads, particularly coming into this Christmas interval.”
