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Four killed in crash
By PAM ZIERK-MAHONEY
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the cause and circumstances of a horrific single vehicle crash which claimed the lives of four people at Piries, near Mansfield, early Sunday morning. At about 7am, a motorist travelling on the MansfieldWoods Point Road observed a fire off the side of the road in a paddock, with
Mansfield-Woods Pt Road closed for 13 hours
emregency services attending and finding a vehicle alight. The bodies of four deceased people were found in the vehicle - and at the time of going to press the victims were yet to be identified. Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives were on scene Sunday and
Monday, accompanied by disaster victim identification personnel. At a press conference on Sunday, Road Policing Command Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir said all causation factors, including speed, would form part of an investigation. He said the occupants
were fully engulfed in the ensuing flames, and that the fire had been burning for some time before authorities were alerted. “This is going to be a complex investigation,” Assistant Commissioner Weir said. He said it was not known yet whether the victims had been killed by the crash or
by fire, but that would all be forensically examined. “What we can tell you is the vehicle was travelling north along the MansfieldWoods Point Road and that the vehicle lost control, has gone off the road, hit an embankment on the left, spun back around and off the road into the paddock and then burst into flames.
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“In terms of occupants, we know that it was a rental vehicle and again we are working through the rental company to identify who rented the vehicle which will help identify the occupants, so until we know that we cannot give out any details around that. “This collision is the latest in a series of many multi-death collisions we have had this year. ■ Continued page 2