THE Automania on the Downs exhibition at the Toowoomba Showgrounds yesterday proved to be a petrol-lovers paradise.

THE lunch-time rush in Russell Street had emergency services on the hop today with two car crashes in less than an hour, within less than 200-metres.

THE driver of a car involved in a three-vehicle crash that left a Korean student dead at a Drayton intersection last year will face a committal hearing.

Paramedics had to respond to a spate of crashes on the Darling Downs on the weekend.

A HARRISTOWN State School student was lucky to escape serious injury when he was hit by a car yesterday morning.

NO hats off to Joseph Martin Gilroy who successfully fled a police chase only to have DNA from his discarded cap give him up.

A 20-YEAR-OLD man was trapped for 45 minutes after a two-vehicle crash this morning in Drayton.

POLICE are investigating a series of cars broken into in Toowoomba on Wednesday night.

TYRONE Donald Theuerkauf received a two-year suspended prison sentence after ramming a car in a terrifying chase near Lowood last year.

RESIDENTS have been reminded to lock vehicles after a number of cars were broken into in Toowoomba.

ARSONISTS dumped a car not long after it was stolen in Toowoomba last night.

A NEW Year’s Day drive to the coast came to an abrupt end for Morven man Rodney Ernest Moore when he rolled his car in Toowoomba while en route.

A man is dead after a car and a cattle truck collided near the Queensland-New South Wales border this morning.

A HOLDEN Commodore stolen from a Gatton residence was found stripped bare of all its parts and dumped at Redland Bay less than 12 hours after it went missing.

A HOLDEN Commodore stolen from a Gatton residence was found stripped bare of all its parts and dumped at Redland Bay less than 12 hours after it went missing.

A MAN has been charged with the attempted murder of a police officer after he rammed a police car to escape arrest near Millmerran.

QUEENSLAND Fire and Rescue crews cut a woman from her mangled car after it crashed on the down section of the Range on the Warrego Highway yesterday at 3.20pm.

The 64-year-old allegedly recorded a blood alcohol concentration of 0.31% – more than six times the legal limit.

POLICE are hunting an offender who tried to steal a woman’s car at the United service station on Cohoe Street last night.

TOOWOOMBA Police have found that one in five people leave valuables in plain sight inside cars.