Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has been in a high speed car accident but has emerged unscathed. He speaks here on the incident.

QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has narrowly escaped injury following a car accident on his way to a councils summit on the Sunshine Coast.

The Courier-Mail understands the Premier's car was travelling on Ocean Drive at Twin Waters when another car slammed into the passenger side, where Mr Newman was sitting.

Mr Newman told couriermail.com.au: "I'm feeling pretty good. I guess we are very, very lucky. I am reassured that the lady in the other car, when I went up to see how she was, she seemed at the time to be okay".

"I hope she is indeed okay.

"There was quite an impact. The car has been substantially damaged."

Mr Newman said he was on the phone at the time.

"It was right into the side of the passenger side of the car."

"I certainly feel lucky. I was actually on the phone at the time to my chief of staff and the director-general of Premiers. I kept talking throughout. I think I said: 'Look we've just been in a car accident'."

"It was a real feeling of: 'Is this really happening?'

"Are we going to be getting out of this...? All that went through my mind. It could have been a lot worse."

When recounting the accident, Mr Newman said his driver was doing the speed limit when a car "shot out from a side street and just came straight into the side of the vehicle.

"I could see it all happening but there was no way it was going to stop.

"It shook us all up a lot. The door was completely jammed. I had to literally kick the door with both feet to get out."

The Premier continued on to the local Government Association of Queensland's finance summit at The Novotel resort where he is due to give a speech this morning.

Ambulance officers arrived at the resort to examine Mr Newman and his staff.

The premier's team of his driver, his police guard and his press secretary Mitch Grayson, had to call for another car to pick them up.

A spokesman for Mr Newman said another vehicle allegedly went through a stop sign and struck the side of the Premier's Holden Statesman.

"We were just wanting to go to the next function. We're still in shock," said the spokesman.

Paramedics assisted the driver of the other vehicle.

Mr Newman will later return to Brisbane for a medical examination.

Police are investigating.

Additional reporting Robyn Ironside and Des Houghton



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