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Fatal traffic crash, Bargara

Where: Wearing Road, Bargara, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Fatal traffic crash, Bargara
Bargara, Queensland · Queensland Police
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The release

The Forensic Crash Unit is appealing for relevant dashcam vision as part of investigations into a fatal traffic crash at Bargara this morning, 13 October.

At approximately 9.25am, police and emergency services were called to Wearing Road to reports a motorcycle and a blue Hyundai Tucson had collided.

The rider of the motorbike, a 36-year-old Bundaberg East man, was declared deceased at the scene.

The driver of the other vehicle, a 35-year-old Avenell Heights woman, was not physically injured.

Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the crash are ongoing.

Police are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant dashcam vision to come forward.

If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious activity form 24hrs per day at www.police.qld.gov.au/reporting .

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▲ 0% Assault offence occurrence has increased by 0% since August 2026.

▼ 1% Drugs offence occurrence has decreased by 1% since August 2026.

▲ 1.9% Theft offence occurrence has increased by 1.9% since August 2026.

— Queensland Police
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Crime in the Bundaberg council area

Bundaberg is a council area in Queensland with about 107,297 residents. It has a Crime Score 53 out of 100 (moderate), 152nd of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by homicide (74th percentile), assault (41st percentile), break-ins (55th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 48.

Violent
922 per 100k
Property
3,941 per 100k
Break-ins
500 per 100k
Theft
2,233 per 100k

See the full Bundaberg crime profile

2017-18: 569 per 100,0002018-19: 597 per 100,0002019-20: 625 per 100,0002020-21: 807 per 100,0002021-22: 1,129 per 100,0002022-23: 1,214 per 100,0002023-24: 1,103 per 100,0002024-25: 1,004 per 100,0002025-26: 922 per 100,0002026-27: 198 per 100,0002017-182022-232026-27
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Bundaberg, 2017-18 to 2026-27 — down 65% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for Queensland.

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