A child has died and four people have been seriously injured in a truck crash on the Hume Highway, south of Sydney. 9News
A child has died and four people have been seriously injured in a truck crash on the Hume Highway, south of Sydney this afternoon.
Dozens of emergency personnel, including two rescue helicopters, were called to Menangle, south of Campbelltown, just after 3pm today. The truck is understood to have smashed into several parked cars stopped in a rest area off the Hume Highway.Police say the B-double cement truck pulled into the Partridge VC Rest Area, then for unknown reasons continued driving into a semi-trailer carting gravel before striking three SUVs."Words cannot describe how tragic this is – for the family who has lost this young child – it's an absolutely tragic loss," Acting Superintendent Darren Sly said.
"There was a number of people at the rest stop and first aid was rendered until emergency services arrived,"Emergency responders were unable to save a young girl, who died at the scene. Four adults were airlifted to Liverpool Hospital with head, facial and leg injuries, including one woman in a critical condition.
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