Pair die in another Pacific Highway crash


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Police are investigating whether fatigue was a factor in a crash that killed two people on a straight stretch of the Pacific Highway, just a day after two others died in a horrific truck crash.

A northbound Toyota Rav4 left the road and crashed into a tree north of the intersection with Hannam Vale Road, near Kew, about 6am this morning.

The house where the sleeping boy was killed when a B-double veered off the Pacific Highway.

The house where the sleeping boy was killed when a B-double veered off the Pacific Highway.

“Two people were deceased at the scene,” a NSW Police spokeswoman said.

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Police said the victims were the male driver and his female passenger, aged in their 20s to 30s, and believed to be from Sydney.

“Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the crash are continuing with police looking at whether fatigue was a contributing factor,” a statement from NSW Police said.

Officers from the Crash Investigation Unit remained at the crash site this morning and a crime scene has been established.

Yesterday an 11-year-old boy was killed instantly when a double-trailer truck smashed into the bedroom of his family’s holiday house, where he was sleeping about 5am yesterday.

Police said the truck swerved off the Pacific Highway at Urunga after it collided with a ute, killing the 38-year-old ute driver from Nambucca Heads.

The truck then slammed into the house, destroying much of it.

The boy’s parents, his 14-year-old brother and two people from the neighbouring house, which was also hit, were taken to Coffs Harbour Base Hospital with shock and injuries.

The family, from Penrith, had recently bought the house to use as a holiday home.

It was not known if speed had played a role in the crash but similar accidents had occurred when vehicles travelled onto the wrong side of the road, either through speeding, alcohol or fatigue, said the Bellingen Shire mayor, Mark Troy.

Other residents said the ute had been travelling on the wrong side of the road before it and the truck collided.

Kew is 150 kilometres south of Urunga.

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