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Two killed as car crashes off bridge in Melbourne while allegedly speeding Two killed as car crashes off bridge in Melbourne while allegedly speeding
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Two people are dead after their car crashed off the side of a high bridge in Melbourne, reportedly while speeding with another car. Up to 100 vehicles filled with young hoons were dispersed by police before a fiery crash off a Melbourne bridge claimed two lives.
Victoria police were told two cars were seen travelling at high speed along the Western Ring Road about 1.30am on Wednesday before one of the drivers lost control on the EJ Whitten Bridge and crashed off the side. Emergency crews were called to E J Whitten Bridge on the Western Ring Road early on Wednesday after a car lost control and plummeted to the ground below.
A witness who was driving to work told 3AW the cars gave him a “fright” as they sped past him, before he saw the car smash through the railing and explode in flames on the ground below. Before the crash, police say they were called to Lara after reports that up to 100 cars were doing burnouts and hooning around the streets.
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Emergency services subsequently found two dead in the charred wreck, their identities yet to be determined. Police dispersed the group and believe one of the cars, a silver Ford sedan, then entered the freeway and began baiting other cars to drag race.
The southbound lanes at the bridge in Keilor East are expected to remain closed until late Wednesday morning. Witnesses say they saw two cars, the silver sedan and a blue ute, travelling at high speed along the Western Ring Road before the ute driver lost control and crashed off the side of the bridge.
Elsewhere in Victoria, a woman is dead after a car carrying four people hit a fox and crashed into trees. Police say the cars were travelling around 160km/h before the ute careered through the barrier and became airborne, flying 100 metres out from the bridge and smashing on the ground about 50 metres below.
Police say the car hit a fox and left the road in Buangor, near Ararat, on Tuesday night and a woman in her 20s, who was in the back seat, died at the scene. A witness who was driving to work told 3AW the cars gave him a “fright” as they sped past him, before he saw the ute smash though the railing and explode in flames.
Another three people, two men in their 20s and a woman in her 30s, were treated by paramedics for minor injuries. Emergency services subsequently found two men dead in the charred wreck. Their identities are yet to be determined.
Police are trying to locate the silver sedan and are trying to establish if there was contact between the vehicles before the crash.
The south-bound lanes at the bridge in Keilor East are expected to remain closed until late Wednesday morning.