SYDNEY, Dec 16 (NNN-AAP) – Two people have died, after their vehicle crashed and caught fire, west of Sydney, late last night.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW), said in a statement, today that, the vehicle crashed into a tree in the small town of Ooma – about 300 km west of Sydney – shortly before 10:20 p.m. local time, last night, and caught fire.
Emergency services were deployed to the scene and extinguished the fire, but two people in the vehicle at the time of the crash died at the scene.
“A crime scene has been established and an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the crash,” police said.
The deceased have not yet been formally identified.
Seven people died in crashes on NSW roads over the weekend, taking the state’s road death toll for 2024 to 328.
Further north in the state of Queensland, a 22-year-old woman died, after her car left the road and hit a pole in the city of Toowoomba – 100 km west of Brisbane – at 11:30 p.m., last night.
The 16-year-old male driver of the vehicle was airlifted to hospital, with life-threatening injuries, and three other passengers, aged 17, 20 and 20 respectively, were also hospitalised.– NNN-AAP
