{"id":11209,"date":"2026-05-14T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/11209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:35:11","slug":"bruce-highway-bus-crash-two-fighting-for-life-others-injured-in-crash-south-of-townsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/11209\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Highway bus crash: Two fighting for life, others injured in crash south of Townsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Davis\" data-testid=\"author-avatar-image\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/94cc74afb139f3706e0fde097ce8078838e8992f31b087e8f567cb93a1b2181e.png\"  width=\"64\" class=\"sc-9a01536c-0 bdzZhU\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-datetime\" class=\"sc-5cbbddda-5 hxoHkT\">Updated May 14, 2026 \u2014 6:28pm,first published 5:34pm<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 JmUoF\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 jyLmZI fPBBmK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>AAA<\/p>\n<p>About 20 people have been injured, with at least three are fighting for life, after a bus rollover in north Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the vehicle \u2013 which had 29 people on board \u2013 on the Bruce Highway at Gumlu just before 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Ambulance Service said at least 20 people were injured and three were in critical condition. Fifteen people were in hospital just after 6pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The crash left about 20 people injured.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ff6f268db1b6b6f0cb6968064ce1e0507095b16fc555fda79394eca2999eab5a.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The crash left about 20 people injured.Lucielle Backo<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred near Rangemore Road and the Bruce Highway was closed in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>The site is about 90 minutes south of Townsville by car.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters were flown in from Mackay and Townsville, with the first patients taken to hospital just after 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers were taken to hospitals in Ayr, Bowen and Townsville.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed they had officers on the scene, but said details of the crash were yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/newsletter-signup?newsletter=am&amp;utm_source=EditorialArticle&amp;utm_medium=ArticleText&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletters\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 JmUoF\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 jyLmZI fPBBmK\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated May 14, 2026 \u2014 6:28pm,first published 5:34pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-11209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brisbane","8":"tag-brisbane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}