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A motorcyclist has died after a crash in Brisbane's north as a horror end to the Easter holidays continues.
A previously fatality-free holiday period came to a sad end on Monday evening when a man and woman were killed on the Bruce Highway, south of Maryborough and a teenage boy was left fighting for life.
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On Tuesday morning, a North Lakes man, 33, was killed when his bike collided with a ute in Hendra about 5.45am, police confirmed.
Paramedics and police urged motorists to avoid the area, at the intersection of busy Nudgee Road and Gadara Street, metres from the north-east Brisbane suburb's police station.
A 33-year-old motorcycle rider died in a crash on Nudgee Road at Hendra on Tuesday morning. Photo: Jorge Branco
Police asked Translink to skip the nearby Pleystowe Crescent bus stop on its route 301 buses.
Nudgee Road was closed between Gerler Road and Navigator Place.
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In Monday afternoon's accident, a car was travelling north on the Bruce Highway when it hit a second vehicle travelling south before colliding head-on with another southbound vehicle about 3.15pm.
A teenage boy was airlifted to Royal Brisbane Hospital in a critical condition, and two men and a woman were taken to hospital in a serious condition.
Emergency workers at the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash on Nudgee Road at Hendra on Tuesday morning. Photo: Jorge Branco
Almost 20,000 Queenslanders were clocked speeding over the Easter weekend.
A motorcyclist was clocked doing 225km/h in a 100km/h zone south of Brisbane on the Easter holiday weekend and another motorist was caught travelling at 223km/h through the Glasshouse Mountains on Monday.