Driver dies in three-car and truck crash on major Brisbane road

An elderly driver is dead after his car and a prime mover crashed in Brisbane’s east on Wednesday morning, the force of the collision pushing his car into two other cars.

The 80-year-old man from The Gap, the sole occupant of a Hyundai Accent, was pronounced dead at the accident scene in Murarrie.

Paramedics treated several people after the crash, about 10.50am at the Lytton Road exit on Creek Road.

Multiple crews including critical care and high-acuity response paramedics treated four people, with a man in his 50s, driving a Toyota Yaris, taken to the Princess Alexandra Hospital with a serious head injury and chest pain, while the 44-year-old female driver of a Hyundai i30 was not injured.

The 21-year-old male truck driver was also not…