Family lost everything in car crash

I am Chantelle, the youngest daughter of a married couple who were unfortunately involved in a single vehicle car accident in Mackay

Our parents set out on their move from Brisbane to Cairns on Thursday 22 Sept @ 12PM with our brother following behind. Later this evening @ around 10pm they had stopped in at a service station at Carmila to get some sleep where they then began to continue their drive on at around 3:00AM Friday 23rd Septmeber. Just before Bakers Creek bridge, a few kms outside of Mackay, our dad who was driving the vehicle swerved to miss a kangaroo before coming onto the bridge. Where the vehicle towing a trailer then lost control which caused the vehicle to plunge over the edge of the bridge, flipping the vehicle and trailer and landing on its head meters below next to the river bank.

Our dad was trapped in the vehicle as the drivers side was completely squished, the seatbelts had locked, mum was trying desperately to kick the glass window, the doors wouldn’t open at all. While they screamed for help. Moments after our brother that was following behind called the emergency services to alert them of the accident where then emergency services worked on our parents for over an hour trying to free them out of the vehicle.

Although mum is in a stable condition with broken ribs, bruised lungs and cuts, the condition of dad is still unknown. Dad has suffered a shattered scull, a bleed on the brain, a separated cheek bone, broken eye socket, a shattered shoulder blade, broken ribs, broken collar bone and is still undergoing further assessment

In the accident, the backseat of the vehicle was filled with personal belongings such as computers and TV’s, the trailer they were towing was full of house goods they had held onto for many years, a brand new John Deer ride on and thousands of dollars worth of house goods.

What was meant to be such an exciting relocation for our parents has turned into such a traumatic event. We just ask that any donations, big or small will really go a long way to help us set our parents back up. Although they lost majority of their life belongings we are just so thankful that we still have our parents