SYDNEY — Two people have died after a vehicle crashed and caught fire west of Sydney late on Sunday night.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement on Monday 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 on Sunday 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.
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 a car left the road and hit a pole in the city of Toowoomba – 100 km west of Brisbane – at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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 hospitalized.
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