A young man was stranded in the Queensland outback for more than 30 hours after he survived a car crash that killed his mate.
The 20-year-old from New South Wales was found lying in a water hole about 160 kilometres south-west of the central Queensland town of Winton.
The body of his 19-year-old friend and co-worker, from Toowoomba, was found in their upturned car 14 kilometres away.
The accident follows the rescue of a British teenager from the Queensland outback last week.
Police said the young stockmen from Brighton Downs Station had driven the 240 kilometres to Winton on Saturday morning, where they drank at the local pub.
The pair spent much of the day in Winton, a town 500 kilometres south-west of Townsville, renowned for yielding rare dinosaur fossils, before setting out for the station again about 4am on Sunday.
It is not clear whether the 19-year-old was intoxicated when he got behind the wheel.
Less than two hours later, their car rolled on Old Cork Road, about 80 kilometres from Brighton Downs Station.
The 19-year-old driver died at the scene, leaving his 20-year-old co-worker stranded and alone.
The 20-year-old set out on foot to find help.
As night fell, workers at Brighton Downs Station manned a search party, fearing the worst.
A worker from the station found the wreckage at 11.30am on Monday.
The 20-year-old, who had left the main road to find water, was not rescued until 3pm.
He was eventually spotted by members of the search party in a private helicopter, lying in a water hole.
The man remains in Winton Hospital where he is being treated for facial injuries suffered in the crash.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the incident.
A British teenager was also rescued from the Queensland outback last week.
Sam Derry-Woodhead, who travelled to Queensland on his "gap year" after school, became lost after setting out on an army-style "yomp" through thick scrub on Upshot Station, near Longreach.
He spent three nights in the harsh outback, while police mounted a massive air and land search.
The 18-year-old was found on Friday afternoon by an Emergency Management Queensland search crew.
Meanwhile, a 63-year-old man has died after his car crashed into a tree in the southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi on Monday night.
"Initial information suggests the man was travelling east on Kildonan Road when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle left the roadway and crashed into a tree," a police spokesman said.
The local man was taken to Goondiwindi Hospital, where he later died.
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