AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2007
Vic: Two dead after separate accidents
MELBOURNE, Dec 8 AAP - Two people are dead and eight others have been taken to hospital
after two separate road accidents in Melbourne.
A man died after the car in which he was a passenger was involved in a three car pile-up
on the Nepean Highway near Wickham Road, at Moorabbin, in Melbourne's south-east, about
1am (AEDT) today, Victoria Police said.
"Police have been told a dark green Holden Commodore sedan travelling outbound on the
Nepean Highway collided into the rear of another Holden Commodore causing it to then collide
into the rear of a third vehicle," Senior Constable Karla Dennis said.
The man who died was sitting in the rear of the second vehicle.
His name and age have not yet been released, police said.
The Metropolitan Ambulance Service said eight other people, including the drivers of
two of the cars have been taken to hospital.
"A woman aged in her early fifties was taken to The Alfred hospital with back injuries,"
a MAS spokesman said.
Seven other people, aged between 16 and 18-years-old, suffered minor injuries and have
been taken to four hospitals.
"In total we have four patients transported to The Alfred hospital, two to the Dandenong
hospital, one to Monash Medical Centre and one to the Royal Melbourne hospital," the spokesman
said.
Members from the Major Collision Investigation unit were investigating the accident.
About the same time police and ambulance crews were called to another accident at Kurunjang,
in Melbourne's outer west.
A 19-year-old man died when his motorbike ran into a parked 4-wheel-drive after he
crossed onto the wrong side of the road on Carberry Drive near Tulloch Avenue, about 1am(AEDT),
police said.
Paramedics tried to revive the man, but he died at the scene.
The deaths of the two men have taken the state's road toll to 302, 11 less than for
the same time last year.
AAP sam/arb
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