Triple fatal car crash being treated as DV homicide

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Detectives in Queensland have launched a domestic violence homicide investigation after three people were killed in a car crash on the state's Sunshine Coast. The sole survivor is in hospital and under police guard. It's alleged the car he was in was stolen in Gympie yesterday.

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00:00 This allegedly stolen car was at the centre of a violent crash that killed three people

00:07 on the Bruce Highway at Federal.

00:10 Police say the white Isuzu was chasing a Nissan Navara and then started ramming it from behind.

00:16 That Nissan Navara has then travelled into the southbound lanes of the Bruce Highway

00:20 and collided with that Great Wall motor vehicle.

00:22 A 25-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man in the Nissan were killed and the 38-year-old

00:28 woman they slammed into also died at the scene.

00:32 We also attended a 25-year-old male patient with serious injuries.

00:37 Police say he is known to them and also to the young woman in the car being pursued.

00:42 The white car which was involved in the crash was allegedly stolen at knife point from a

00:47 mum and her three children in Gympie late Thursday.

00:51 We're still speaking to witnesses from that robbery from yesterday so once we've pieced

00:55 that together we'll then make a determination and establish linkages between that person

00:59 who was located there this morning and the robbery from yesterday.

01:02 The Bruce Highway was closed for several hours as authorities investigated what caused this

01:07 horrific crash and cleaned up the wreckage spread across two lanes.

01:11 There is a very thorough police investigation underway in respect of this matter.

01:16 There is a number of complexities that need to be explored.

01:19 Our thoughts and prayers are with the families involved in that incident.

01:26 Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen the white-eyed suzus since 4pm Thursday

01:30 to call Crime Stoppers.

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