Police update 2: Fatal crash at Koumala

Investigators today charged a East Mackay woman following the deaths of two people in a Easter Monday crash near Koulama.

It will be alleged around 10.30am on April 18 a car collided with a motorcycle on the Bruce Highway just north of Koulama.

The 60-year-old rider died at the scene and his 19-year-old pillion passenger was flown to the Townsville Hospital were she died from her injuries on April 27.

A 64-year-old East Mackay woman was today charged with two counts of careless driving causing death.

She is due appear in the Sarina Magistrates Court on Monday August 8.

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