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A woman has been charged over a fatal in the Illawarra region last month.
About 7.15pm on Friday 5 March 2021, emergency services responded to reports a Holden Statesman and a Nissan Juke, both travelling south, collided on the M1 Princes Highway, near the Masters Road off-ramp at Mount St Thomas.
Following the initial crash, the Statesman hit a median strip before crashing into a tree.
The driver, a 47-year-old woman, died at the scene.
Her three passengers – a 15-year-old girl and two boys, aged five and 10 – were air lifted to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead suffering serious injuries.
The Nissan driver, a 29-year-old woman, and her passenger, a 32-year-old man, were uninjured. The driver was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.
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Subscriber only A driver whose car crashed into another car before rolling down an embankment, has been charged with being under the influence of drugs and alcohol. About 8.40pm on Saturday April 2, police were called to a two-car crash at the offramp to Byron Bay and Myocum Road, Ewingsdale. A 37-year-old male driver from Bexhill returned a mid range reading at the scene and was detained. The man was arrested and taken to Byron Bay Police Station for a breath analysis. Police will allege the driver driving a white Toyota utility was travelling east along Myocum Road attempted to turn left but collided with a gold coloured Holden Commodore.