Frankston truckie will appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for dangerous driving causing death
A Frankston man has been charged after a fatal crash on Boxing Day left one woman dead and two men in hospital.
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A Frankston man has been charged over the fatal collision in Coldstream on Boxing Day.
Emergency services were called to the Maroondah Highway collision, where a car and a truck collided at 1.15pm.
A 62-year-old woman from Tranmere in South Australia died at the scene.
She was a passenger in the car.
The driver, a 63-year-old Essendon man was rushed to hospital with critical injuries and another passenger, a 63-year-old man from South Australia was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The 42-year-old truck driver from Frankston was not injured and stopped at the scene of the crash.
Police have charge him with dangerous driving causing death.
He will appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on December 29.
295 lives have been lost on Victorian roads at time of writing, 57 more than the same time last year.
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