December date set for coronial inquest into 2019 car crash deaths in Alice Springs

A date has been set for a coronial inquest into the death of three people who died in an NT car crash on Christmas Day in 2019

Corners Spearwood Road and Kilgariff Road, Alice Springs. Picture: StreetView

A CORONIAL inquest into the death of three people who died in a car crash in 2019 will be held in Alice Springs later this year.

A 32-year-old woman, a 27-year-old man and a 35-year-old man died on Christmas Day in the Alice Springs suburb of Sadadeen, while two others were injured.

According to police, the driver attempted to evade a police traffic stop, drove away at speed, crashed into another car and then hit a tree.

The deaths were being investigated as deaths in custody.

Territory coroner Greg Cavanagh will lead the three day hearing in Alice Springs Local Court from December 7-9.

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