Child dies in highway pile-up after car hits emu
A five-year-old boy has died in a three-car collision in the state’s south east sparked when one vehicle hit an emu on a highway.
Emergency services were called to Riddoch Highway, five kilometres south of Nagwarry, at 2:40 pm on Sunday after reports of a three-car crash.
A Holden sedan hit an emu, causing a Toyota station wagon to brake to avoid the collision. A Nissan ute then crashed into the rear of the Toyota.
A five-year-old boy in the Toyota died at the scene, with a 15-year-old girl in the same vehicle taken to hospital with critical injuries.
The 42-year-old male Toyota driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries, along with a 46-year-old woman, a 13-year-old girl and six-year-old boy.
All Toyota occupants were from Mount Gambier.
The Nissan driver, a 22-year-old Worrolong man, was taken to hospital uninjured as a precaution, while the woman driving the Holden sedan was uninjured.
Major Crash officers attended the scene and roads were closed, but have since reopened.
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Emergency services were later called to Port Augusta West on the Eyre Highway at 8:40 pm on Sunday after reports of a crash involving a truck and a car.
A 24-year-old Port Augusta man who was driving the car was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
A 29-year-old Clearview man, who had been driving the truck, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Major Crash officers attended the scene, and roads remain closed.
