Mackay detectives have charged a local man with ten offences following investigations into two serious crashes last Sunday (November 20) at Mount Pleasant and Farleigh.
Initial information indicates shortly after 6.30am on Sunday, two vehicles collided at the intersection of the Bruce Highway and Sams Road before one of the vehicles, a stolen white Toyota Landcruiser, left the scene.
The driver of the other car, a 75-year-old Blacks Beach woman, was transported to the Mackay Base Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The white Toyota Landcruiser, stolen from an Andergrove address earlier that morning, was located in Cemetery Road following the crash.
While investigations were continuing to locate the driver of the stolen vehicle, the situation took a strange twist.
Police were called to the Bruce Highway by motorists due to the alleged dangerous driving of a stolen red Isuzu MU-X 4WD at around 1.20pm.
At 1.59pm, the vehicle overtook a marked police vehicle headed south on the Bruce Highway.
Police activated lights and siren however the vehicle allegedly failed to stop and a pursuit commenced.
At 2.04pm the Isuzu MU-X 4WD collided with a vehicle travelling north on the Bruce Highway.
The occupants of the vehicle, a 70-year-old man and 68-year-old woman, were transported to Mackay Base Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The sole occupant of the Isuzu MU-X 4WD, a 19-year-old Mackay man, was arrested at the scene.
He was transported to hospital as a precaution and was subsequently released from hospital, where he was then charged by police.
The 19-year-old appeared in the Mackay Magistrates Court last Monday charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing grievous bodily harm and left scene of incident without obtaining help (Mount Pleasant), dangerous operation of a motor vehicle (Farleigh), evade police, enter premises and commit indictable offence by break, as well as two counts each of enter premises and commit, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and disqualified and unlicensed driving.
Investigations are continuing with overview from the Ethical Standard Command.
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