Two people have died in a fiery outback crash in South Australia, while a man has been killed in a rollover on a private property in the Riverland.
Key points:
- Two people have died in a crash on the Stuart Highway
- Another man died in a ute rollover near Morgan
- A motorcyclist has sustained life-threatening injuries in a crash near Mount Gambier
Five other people have also been badly injured in crashes over the Adelaide Cup long weekend.
The driver of a ute — a 23-year-old man from the ACT — and the passenger of a B-double truck — a 57-year-old woman from the Adelaide suburbs of Para Vista — died when their vehicles collided about midday yesterday on the Stuart Highway at Wirraminna, in the state’s far north, between Pimba and Glendambo.
Both vehicles caught fire on impact.
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)The truck driver — a 49-year-old man from Para Vista — is in a critical condition in hospital.
Police say the highway will stay closed to all traffic for several days with diversions in place as the road surface has been significantly damaged.
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)Ute rollover near Morgan
The man who died in the Riverland crash was a 26-year-old from Campbelltown, in Adelaide’s east.
Emergency services were called to a private property off Wonga Road, at Lindley — near Morgan — after reports of a single ute rollover about 6:00pm yesterday.
Police did CPR until paramedics arrived but the man could not be saved.
The driver of the ute, a 29-year-old Athelstone man, and two other passengers, a 34-year-old Tanunda man and a 29-year-old Klemzig man, were all flown to Adelaide with non-life threatening injuries.
Motorcycle crash in south-east
In the state’s south-east, a 63-year-old male motorcyclist has suffered life-threatening injuries after a crash at Kongorong, near Mount Gambier.
The man came off his bike on an unnamed access road off Bannisters Road about 5:50pm yesterday.
A total of 21 lives have been lost on South Australia’s roads this year, compared with 17 at the same time last year.
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