Italian charged over deadly Qld road crash

A young Italian backpacker who was driving a station wagon full of his friends around northern Queensland has been charged after a horrific crash killed three of them.

Two men and a woman, all in their 20s from Italy, were killed when the car rolled on the Bruce Highway between Townsville and Bowen on Friday, police say.

A 26-year-old woman passenger remains in hospital.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with driving without due care and attention.

The crash happened at 2pm just south of Home Hill, killing a 28-year-old man, a 23-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman.

The driver has been bailed to appear in the Ayr Magistrates Court on August 12.

Meanwhile a woman has been killed in a three-vehicle collision on the Gold Coast.

The 31-year-old's car crashed into another car travelling in the opposite direction in Runaway Bay, before ploughing into a third, stationary vehicle on Saturday afternoon.

The driver of the car and another passenger suffered minor injuries but the woman, from Labrador, died at the scene.