Screams follow horror hinterland crash

POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a truck driver was seriously injured following a horror crash involving his vehicle and two cars near the Fox and Hounds pub in Wongawallan last night.

The male truck driver, a man in his 20s, was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious condition, while the three occu- pants of the cars escaped with minor injuries.

Fox and Hounds director Justin Hemer said the truck let out a long warning horn before crashing into the two cars, after which he heard screams.

“We heard the tooting of the horn that went on before an extremely large bang and brakes and the screams,” Mr Hemer said.

“The screaming went on and on for quite some time.”

Mr Hemer raced outside and dialled triple-zero while making his way down to the crash. “The neighbours came out and cars had stopped to help,” Mr Hemer said.

“Everyone was running down there. The truck seemed to have lost its brakes and rolled. It was a small truck with an excavator, a digger on the back. He (the truck driver) had a massive laceration and was losing a lot of blood.”

Mr Hemer said the intersection of Tambourine-Oxenford Rd and Elevation Drive is notorious for crashes. “We’ve had a few others (crashes),” he said. “They need to make changes to that intersection. They’re just about to resurface it but I don’t think it will help.”

Police last night appealed for anyone who may have dash cam footage of a white Isuzu truck with an excavator on a trailer travelling along Tambourine-Oxenford Road prior to the incident to come forward.