Two children were seriously injured and six taken to hospital after a head-on collision on David Low Way at Peregian Beach on Friday afternoon.
Coolum officer in charge Elissa Edie said seat belts and air bags kept everyone safe, though all six occupants were taken to hospital with two children in a serious but stable condition.
Paramedics, including critical care, responded to the two-vehicle crash that occurred just after 4pm after a car travelling in a northern direction hit the median island at the intersection of Lorikeet Drive and travelled on to the wrong side of the road.
Queensland Ambulance Service said one man, the sole occupant of the northbound car, was transported to the Nambour Hospital in a stable condition with neck pain.
Two adults and three children travelling in southbound 4WD were transported to Sunshine Coast University Hospital, including a boy in a serious but stable condition, a girl in a serious but stable condition with abdominal pain, a third stable child who appeared uninjured, a woman who appeared uninjured and a man in his 40s with chest pain.
The accident occurred on the Australian Road Safety Foundation’s (ARSF) Fatality Free Friday, a one-day-a-year campaign initiated in 2007 and now recognised as Australia’s largest national community-based road safety program.
It operates on the belief that if we can go one day without a death on the road, we can demonstrate the impact a focus on road safety can have every day of the year.
