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A supplied image obtained on Aug. 30, 2024, shows a smoke cloud after a semi-trailer and ute crashed in the Bruce Highway at Bororen in Queensland. An evacuation alert was issued for nearby residents after a truck carrying chemicals and a ute collided on the Bruce Highway in Queensland. AAP Image/Supplied by Queensland Ambulance Service
A truck carrying more than 40 tonnes of chemicals has exploded, with the shock waves felt kilometres away, after a fatal crash closed a major highway.
The male driver of a ute died in the fiery head-on collision with a B-double semi-trailer on the Bruce Highway, near Bororen in central Queensland, early on Aug. 30.
