Community rallies to help find charity car stolen before Christmas

Vehicle owner Russelle Doyle, part of the Ipswich team Car 350, said after posting about the theft on Facebook, strangers contacted him and the police throughout last week with sightings of the car.

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“The post was shared well over 1000 times between my personal page and Car 350 pages, it went onto interstate trucking pages … it’s amazing what social media can do,” he said.

“We had random people reporting sightings to the police and me directly.

“The first three sightings were around the same area in Carindale, Wynnum and Tingalpa. Then we had one on Wednesday at Woolloongabba, before there was nothing for a few days after that.

“Then we found it on Boxing Day – a friend saw it on the side of the road, it was in Sydney Street in…