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Fatal traffic crash, Dalby

Queensland Police·

Where: Blaxland South Road, Dalby, the street the release names · See the street on the map

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

Forensic Crash Unit officers are investigating a fatal traffic crash today in Dalby.

Preliminary investigations indicate around 10.30am a white Ford Falcon utility was heading south on Blaxland South Road when it has left the roadway and hit a tree.

The driver and sole occupant, a 62-year-old Dalby man, died at the scene.

Anyone with further information or relevant vision, is urged to contact police.

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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.

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Crime in the Western Downs council area

Western Downs is a council area in Queensland with about 35,452 residents. It has a Crime Score 77 out of 100 (high), 34th 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 assault (68th percentile), homicide (93rd percentile), sexual offences (86th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 62.

Violent
1,565 per 100k
Property
4,479 per 100k
Break-ins
657 per 100k
Theft
2,324 per 100k

See the full Western Downs crime profile

2017-18: 789 per 100,0002018-19: 1,002 per 100,0002019-20: 741 per 100,0002020-21: 905 per 100,0002021-22: 1,455 per 100,0002022-23: 1,810 per 100,0002023-24: 1,879 per 100,0002024-25: 2,008 per 100,0002025-26: 1,565 per 100,0002026-27: 412 per 100,0002017-182022-232026-27
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Western Downs, 2017-18 to 2026-27 — down 48% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for Queensland.

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