In a tragic start to the festive season, two women, understood to be sisters, have died in a single-vehicle rollover on the Mulligan Highway near Lakeland on 8 December. Photo: Supplied.
The Hope Vale community is in mourning after a 60-year-old female resident was one of two people killed in a single-vehicle accident on south-eastern Cape York on Sunday afternoon.
The Queensland Police Service said initial investigations indicated at about 1:50pm on 8 December, a Toyota LandCruiser was travelling southbound, approximately five kilometres south-west of Lakeland on the Mulligan Highway, when it left the road and rolled into Edmonstone Creek.
The occupants of the vehicle – a 60-year-old Hope Vale woman and her passenger, a 59-year-old Manoora woman – died at the scene.
Cape York Weekly understands the victims were sisters who were returning to Cairns after attending a funeral in the region.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.
Witnesses or anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Policelink on 13 14 44.
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