VIC: Woman dies after car hits tree

AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2008
VIC: Woman dies after car hits tree

MELBOURNE, April 4 AAP - A woman has died, a man is injured and another man is assisting
police with inquiries after a car struck a tree on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.

The green Ford sedan the woman was in ran off High Street in Hastings and hit the tree
about 11pm (AEDT) yesterday, police said.

Passers-by freed two other occupants from the car but the woman, 48, died at the scene.

It was not clear who was driving the car, police said.

A man aged in his 40s was flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition.

The second man is being questioned at Frankston police station.

Major collisions police are investigating.

They have asked for witnesses to the car being driven erratically on High Street and
the Frankston-Flinders Road before the crash to come forward.

The death took Victoria's road toll to 94, 12 more than at the same time last year.

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