Child and multiple other people dead after car and train collide in NT

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Multiple people including a child have been killed in a horrific head on collision with a road train north of Katherine. Forensic investigators have been at the scene since Friday afternoon trying to identify the victims.

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00:00 Mangled wrecks on the side of the Stuart Highway.

00:05 Now the site of a major investigation into what went horribly wrong.

00:09 Police, Fire and Emergency Services, St John were met with a terrible scene

00:14 and first was trying to save those that could be.

00:19 A four wheel drive collided head on with a road train just south of Pine Creek yesterday afternoon,

00:25 killing everyone on board.

00:27 Police say the two occupants of the truck are lucky to survive.

00:30 The driver and the passenger of the truck were medevaced to hospital.

00:36 There was an infant child that was found deceased from the vehicle

00:41 and there are a number of people in the vehicle also deceased.

00:45 First responders arriving to a flaming wreck.

00:48 The task for police now is to identify passengers through the four wheel drive's ownership records,

00:53 the impact so violent that police are unable to say how many people are inside the car.

00:59 We have our disaster victim identification team here at the moment processing the scene.

01:05 Their role is a methodical role to identify the deceased persons in the vehicle.

01:10 What caused the vehicle to steer into the path of the southbound road train is still unknown,

01:16 but the incident, devastating for everyone involved.

01:19 I'd like to acknowledge the work that those members of the public did in trying to help out on a scene

01:25 which would have been quite terrifying in terms of the fire that would have been preventing them

01:29 from pulling people out of the vehicle at the time.

01:32 In an effort to determine what happened in the lead up to the collision,

01:35 police are appealing for any witnesses who are travelling in the area between 2 and 5pm yesterday to come forward.

01:42 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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