Two people have died and another has life-threatening injuries after three crashes in Queensland this weekend.
A 23-year-old man died when the car he was driving crashed at Normanton, Cape York, about 4.45pm (AEST) on Saturday.
Police believe the car was travelling on a straight stretch of the gravel Burke Developmental Road when it left the road and then lurched violently right, rolling several times before stopping on its roof.
The driver died at the scene and his male front-seat passenger, 32, was taken to Townsville Hospital with head, chest and spinal injuries.
Another man, 20, was taken to hospital with less severe head and spinal injuries while his two fellow male back-seat passengers received only grazes.
Around the same time, at Springfield, west of Brisbane, a 21-year-old man crashed a trail bike he had been riding in cleared land and bushland behind the Orion Shopping Centre.
Police said he and two friends had been taking turns on the bike and when the man did not return his friends found their injured friend, still conscious.
However, his condition worsened on the drive home and he was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he died less than two hours later.
And another man is in Logan Hospital with life-threatening head injuries after crashing a motorcycle at South Maclean, south of Brisbane.
Police said complaints were received about hooning behaviour before the crash about 10.20pm.
A second man received minor injuries.
Police are investigating all three crashes.
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