AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2006
Vic: Teen dead, eight injured in car collision
A teenage girl has died .. and up to eight others have been injured .. in a head-on
collision north east of Melbourne.
Three helicopters ferried five of the people involved in the incident to hospitals
in Melbourne .. with others taken to local hospitals.
Police say the accident happened when a Toyota sedan collided head-on with a minivan
on the Marysville Road .. about five kilometres east of the Maroondah Highway .. shortly
before midday.
Seven out of eight people travelling in the minivan were injured .. at least two seriously
.. and a 16-year-old girl has died.
Police say witnesses saw two motorcycles travelling on the wrong side of the road just
before the crash .. overtaking a line of cars.
Police wish to speak to the people riding the motorbikes and to anyone else who saw the incident.
The death brings Victoria's road toll to 187 compared to 217 at the same time last year.
Eds: clarifies number of patients airlifted on updated information.
AAP RTV cmb/cp/wz
KEYWORD: TOLL VIC (MELBOURNE)
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