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The extent of the wreckage shows the power of the impact. Picture: Bianca De Marchi
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Police at the scene of a fatal car crash at One Tree Hill. Picture: Nigel Parsons
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A TODDLER has died and seven injured people have been pulled from the crumpled wrecks of two vehicles that crashed head-on on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.


Emergency services airlifted a boy, 7, and a man and two women, all aged in their 30s, to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the Royal Adelaide Hospital after the crash near Kulpera.

The boy had a suspected broken leg, the man was in a serious-to-critical condition and both women had serious injuries, an Ambulance SA spokesman said.

Two boys, aged 3 and 6, and a girl, 6, were taken by ambulance to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Debris littered the scene about 12km northwest of Port Wakefield.

Major Crash investigator Sergeant David Kuchenmeister said a Holden Commodore and a four-wheel drive towing a boat collided on the Copper Coast Highway about 4pm.

“My understanding is it is two families in the vehicles involved. At this stage it is too early to determine if speed was a problem,” Sgt Kuchenmeister said.

Police said the dead boy was aged two or three and was a passenger in the Commodore.

A man among the first on the scene said it was “pretty horrific”.

“We’re on a dead-flat road for 20km and you could see the car sitting in the middle of the road. The car was nearly upside down,” he said.

“There was a 4WD with a boat and they had turned on their side. There was a woman driver still hanging in her seatbelt, and the passenger was half in the back. He was conscious, he had snapped some bones and she was OK but she said her back hurt. There were two boys, we helped get one out of the car.”

The man said a male passenger in the Commodore was distraught and the female driver was barely conscious. “The male passenger in the other car with the deceased child was pretty upset.”

Earlier in the day, a man who died in a two-car crash at One Tree Hill was the first person to die on South Australian roads this year.

Aged in his twenties, the man was a passenger in a Commodore that collided with a Ford ute on One Tree Hill Rd just before midday.

Both drivers were in a serious but stable condition last night. The driver of the Commodore was flown to Royal Adelaide Hospital. The Ford driver was taken by ambulance.

 

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