source : the age
A woman has died, and a man has been arrested following a carjacking and spate of crashes on the Sunshine Coast on Monday afternoon.
Shortly after 12pm, police received reports that a red Porsche Macan crashed on the Bruce Highway in Palmview near Sunshine Coast theme park Aussie World.
The crash caused a multi-vehicle pile-up, seriously injuring a man and woman in another vehicle.
Police are investigating two alleged carjackings, linked to two vehicle rollovers and the alleged shooting of a man in a carjacking on the Sunshine Coast.Credit: Nine
The woman died at the scene, and the man was taken to hospital.
Eyewitnesses reported the Porsche was driving erratically immediately before the crash.
Police said the driver of the Porsche left the vehicle armed with a gun and stole a white SsangYong Rexton, shooting the driver in the arm.
The Porsche driver left the scene in the stolen SsangYong Rexton, which police found flipped over on Steve Irwin Way near Forestry Road, in Landsborough, less than half-an-hour later.
The wreckage of a stolen SsangYong Rexton at Landsborough, on the Sunshine Coast, on Monday. Police allege the man originally driving the Rexton was shot during a carjacking, with the offender later crashing the car before being arrested.Credit: DM Mechanical
The man then allegedly stole another vehicle – a grey Mazda 3 – before being arrested on Steve Irwin Way. A firearm was recovered inside the car.
Officers established three crime scenes at the two crash sites and location of arrest, and closed sections of the Bruce Highway.
The Department of Transport and Main Roads advised motorists all southbound lanes on the highway were closed, and delays were expected.
Easter weekend traffic was compounded by three crashes and several alleged carjackings on the Sunshine Coast.Credit: Nine
It reported a second crash shortly before 2pm further north on the Bruce Highway, in Forest Glen, understood to be unrelated to the carjacking incidents.
Motorists were advised to avoid the area, with traffic brought to a standstill for kilometres.
More to come.
