Eight-car pileup, separate crash cause delays on Peninsula Link Freeway
A driver is dead after a triple-car pileup on the Peninsula Link, which occurred not long after a serious smash involving eight vehicles. The freeway is closed in both directions as emergency services clear the wreckage.
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A driver has tragically died in one of two serious crashes that closed the Peninsula Link in both directions this morning.
Police say a van collided with a four-wheel drive, which then crashed into a truck near Robinsons Rd about 6.40am.
The driver and sole occupant of the van died at the scene.
Photos from the scene show a SES tarp covering a mangled O’Brien AutoGlass van.
The four-wheel drive and truck drivers, both male, sustained minor injuries and were taken to hospital.
Just 20 minutes earlier, eight cars collided near Cranbourne Rd on the outbound lane around 6.15am.
No one was seriously injured but it will take hours to clean up the wreckage.
A man aged in his 20s was taken to The Alfred with back injuries.
Paramedics treated a woman aged in her 40s for arm injuries and a woman in her 30s for leg injuries — both were taken to Frankston Hospital.
Peninsula Link is closed in both directions between Golf Links Rd and Cranbourne Rd.
Police are on scene and drivers are urged to divert onto Frankston Freeway and Frankston-Flinders Rd.
The death brings the state’s road toll to 69, eight fewer than the same time last year.
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