NSW: Two dead in separate crashes

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2010
NSW: Two dead in separate crashes

SYDNEY, April 9 AAP - Two men are dead after separate crashes within three hours of
each other in regional NSW, police say.

In the first crash, about 5.25am (AEST) on Thursday, a southbound Ford station wagon
collided with a semi-trailer travelling in the opposite direction on the Pacific Highway
about 75km south of Ballina on the NSW north coast.

"The truck's fuel tank ruptured and it also lost a wheel and veered into a truck-stop,
hitting a prime mover parked in the area," police said in a statement.

The 69-year-old man driving the Ford was trapped for a short time before being taken
to hospital, where he later died.

The semi-trailer driver and a man sleeping in the parked truck were not injured in the smash.

In the Blue Mountains, about 8.20am (AEST), two utes collided head-on while travelling
on the Great Western Highway at Mt Victoria.

A 43-year-old Urunga man driving the westbound ute died at the scene while a man and
woman in the second vehicle suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Police will prepare reports for the coroner in relation to both crashes.

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