WA:Man killed in collision with road train

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-2011
WA:Man killed in collision with road train

A 59-year-old man has been killed after his car veered into the path of an oncoming
road train in the Western Australian Wheatbelt town of Meckering.

Police say the man and his female passenger crossed onto the other side of the road
before colliding with the oncoming road train at about 7 (WST) last night.

The driver was found dead at the scene while his female passenger suffered severe injuries
and has been air lifted to Royal Perth Hospital where she remains in a critical condition.

Police say the force of the crash was strong enough to eject the driver of the road
train out of his cab.

It's the first fatality on WA roads for the Easter holiday period.

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(EDS: AAP's long weekend road toll figures are for the period 0001 April 21 to 2359
April 26. The official police Easter road toll ends at 2359 Monday April 25 and does not
include the extra public holiday on Tuesday for Anzac Day)

KEYWORD: TOLLWA (PERTH)

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