As police examined the scene on Sunday, a small child’s balance bike was seen in pieces on the footpath, alongside a helmet.
The driver of the LDV dual-cab utility, 41-year-old Trevor William Galbraith from Regents Park, was taken into custody at the scene and charged with two counts of manslaughter overnight.
A child’s balance bike was in pieces at the scene.Credit: Nine News
He was less than two kilometres from his home when his ute allegedly veered from the road and struck the father and son.
Galbraith did not appear when the case was mentioned in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Monday. He was remanded in custody and the matter was adjourned until October 20.
The deaths occurred on a horror weekend on Queensland’s roads.
Flowers and stuffed animals left near the scene of the tragedy.Credit: Catherine Strohfeldt
Two suburbs over in Greenbank, a 31-year-old New Beith man died when his Volkswagen Amarok rolled on New Beith Road.
His two passengers, a 36-year-old Regents Park man and a 35-year-old Eagleby man, were taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital with minor injuries.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating both incidents.
The state’s 2025 road toll now sits at 187, four more deaths than at the same time last year.
Peak motoring body RACQ released data at the weekend highlighting the Queensland electorates with the most road trauma as it called for tougher police enforcement.
Among the worst from 2019 to 2023 was the electorate of Nanango, which takes in the towns of Kingaroy and Crows Nest north-west of Brisbane, where 66 lives were lost.
That was followed by the electorate of Mirani, which takes in towns along the Queensland coast between Rockhampton and Mackay, where 50 people were killed on the roads.
Over the same four-year period, 49 road users were killed in the Scenic Rim, on the south-western outskirts of Brisbane, while 46 did in the Gympie electorate.
“We have a road safety crisis here in Queensland,” RACQ chief executive David Carter said.
RACQ is calling for the urgent rollout of more point-to-point speed cameras on high-risk roads, as well as more police on the roads.
Its call was supported by Dr David Lockwood from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
“It is clear the current strategies are not working to curb the cultural crisis on Queensland’s roads,” he said.
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