Two people dead in horror ute and truck crash in South Australia
A fiery crash between a truck and a ute in South Australia that forced a highway to open up has left two people dead.
A road has opened up in dramatic scenes in South Australia after a truck and ute head on crash left two people dead.
A large truck caught fire after the fatal collision on the Stuart Highway, causing plastic supports under a bridge at Wirraminna, between Pimba and Glendambo, to melt and the road to open up.
The fire also seriously burned the 49-year-old Adelaide driver of the B-double truck. He is now in hospital recovering.
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His female passenger, a 57-year-old woman from Para Vista, and the driver of the ute, a 23-year-old from the Australian Capital Territory, died at the scene.
The crash happened about midday on Saturday.
SA Police Assistant Commissioner of State Operations, Ian Parrott, told a media conference on Sunday there was “carnage everywhere” following the crash.
“That crash was absolutely horrific,” he said.
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“Both vehicles were incinerated and the damage to the bridge is catastrophic.”
Assistant Commissioner Parrott warned South Australians needed to avoid the ‘fatal five’ factors which all contributed to road fatalities: speeding, drink driving, taking drugs, not wearing seatbelts and driving while fatigued.
“In the past two days we have had tragic situations on our roads, from the Far North to the Riverland down to the South East,” he said.
“There are at least four families out there, and probably more this weekend, who now have life changing circumstances because of lives lost or serious injuries on our roads which, hopefully, most of which could have been preventable,” he said.
He said there would be investigations into the collision to determine whether or not any of those factors were involved.
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