YOUNG MAN DIES IN CRASH
POLICE have appealed for witnesses after a man died in a single-vehicle crash near the intersection of Table Top Drive and Toowoomba Connection Road at Withcott.
The initial reports indicate a 34-year-old South Toowoomba man was heading eastbound on the Toowoomba Connection Road when his vehicle veered left, travelled down an embankment and became lodged in a thick group of trees, about 9.40am.
He was the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man is the second person to die in a fatal crash on this section of the range crossing since 2008, while in the past two years there have been eight serious crashes that have resulted in injury.
Lockyer Valley woman Skye Payne was travelling behind him moments before the crash.
She saw him leave the road, so she immediately stopped while a second man phoned Triple-0.
“We jumped out to see if we could help him, but there was nothing we could do,” she said.
Ms Payne stayed at the scene until the police paramedics arrived.
“I have witnessed accidents before, but nothing like this one,” she said.
“I travel that road every day and this will stick with me for a long time. It has hit hard.”
Police put traffic diversions in place along the eastbound lane while the Forensic Crash Unit officers started their investigation.
They have asked for anyone who may have witnessed the crash, or has dashcam footage of it, to contact police.
Phone Policelink on 131 000 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.