A Townsville man has been charged with manslaughter after two people died in one of the worst traffic accidents Queensland has seen this year.
Police allege his Landcruiser ploughed into a column of stationary traffic which had formed on the highway due to an earlier fatal crash on the Bruce Highway near Mutarnee, north of Townsville, in June.
Police also allege the man was disqualified from driving at the time. They claim he failed to stop and then hit a Mazda 3, killing the 26-year-old woman at the wheel.
The impact pushed the Mazda into a Mitsubishi Lancer and killed its driver, a man aged 23, police say.
A 31-year-old man from the Townsville suburb of Mundingburra was charged on Tuesday with two counts of manslaughter and one count of disqualified driving.
He was remanded in custody and will appear in Townsville Magistrates Court on November 25.
