Baby dies after horror crash on side of Queensland’s busy M1 freeway

Melissa Meehan
AAP
Baby boy dies, woman seriously injured, after major crash on M1 at Gaven, Gold Coast.
Baby boy dies, woman seriously injured, after major crash on M1 at Gaven, Gold Coast. Credit: 7NEWS

A baby has died after a ute ploughed into the back of a car parked beside a busy freeway.

Queensland Police are investigating the fatal crash between a silver four-wheel-drive that was parked on the side of the northbound M1, when it was struck by a grey ute in the early hours of Sunday.

Police say the baby boy, who was in the parked four-wheel-drive, was rushed to the Gold Coast University Hospital, but died a short time later.

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The driver of the four-wheel-drive, a 24-year-old Ormeau Hills woman, was also taken to hospital in a serious condition.

The driver of the ute, a 51-year-old Loganlea man, sustained minor injuries.

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