Justitie · Suffolk Park crashSuffolk Park fatal crash: Two drivers killed, passenger criticalGeschreven 31 oktober 2026 om 06:09 UTCKijkenTranscript0:07Two drivers died in a three vehicle crash on Broken Head Road.0:10A passenger was airlifted to hospital in critical condition, and police closed part0:14of the road.0:15Investigators are working to find what caused the collision, while the full injury0:18toll is still unclear.0:20Emergency services were called to Suffolk Park, south of Byron Bay, at about half0:23past ten on Saturday morning, October thirty, one.0:26Officers from the Tweed Byron Police District attended the crash on Broken Head0:31Road.0:31Both drivers died at the scene.0:33Police believe one was a woman in her fifties, and the other a man in his sixties.0:37They hadn't yet been formally identified, so those age ranges are provisional.0:41The critically injured woman was a passenger in the second vehicle whose driver0:44died.0:44She was in her sixties.0:46NSW ambulance paramedics treated the passenger before the Westpac helicopter flew0:49her to Gold Coast University Hospital.0:51She was in critical condition when she was taken there.0:54No later change in her condition has been announced.0:56Paramedics described two cars colliding head on before a third vehicle struck the1:01wreckage.1:01Investigators are still working to determine the collision sequence and its cause.1:05Police said everyone in the third vehicle escaped injury.1:08But paramedics described three injured people, with two women and a teenager taken1:12to hospital.1:13It's unclear how those injuries fit across the vehicles.1:16Police established a crime scene and began investigating.1:19The collision also forced traffic away from a section of Broken Head Road.1:23Police closed the road between Beach Drive and Broken Head Reserve Road, put1:27diversions in place, and urged people to avoid the area.1:29That closure followed the crash.1:31Tea here is been no confirmed update on when the road reopened.1:34The crash happened just over twenty years after another fatal collision on the same1:37stretch.1:38On October2,2006 , five boys were heading to Byron Bay after celebrating a friend's1:44birthday at a Chinese restaurant in Lismore.1:46Poor teenagers died when their car ran off the road at Broken Head.1:49Corey New and Paul Morris were sixteen.1:51Bryce Wells and Mitchell Evely were seventeen.1:54The seventeen-year old driver was the only survivor.1:56The driver in that two thousand and six crash was sentenced to four years in jail,2:00with a two-year non-parole period.2:02Police haven't determined what caused the latest collision.2:06Investigators are asking anyone with information or dash cam footage to contact2:09Tweed, Byron police or crime stoppers.2:12Footage from people traveling through the area could help police work out how the2:15three vehicles came together.2:16Police will prepare a report for the coroner into the deaths of the two drivers.Lees het artikelTijdlijn van het verhaalHeyDex
