WEDNESDAY’S Mitchell Highway crash which claimed the life of a young woman was the second fatal accident on the road in less than two months.
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The woman who was killed in the two-car crash 20 kilometres east of Orange’s around 4.30pm on Wednesday was a 20-year-old from Bathurst, police say.
Police are yet to confirm the woman’s name, saying they are waiting to contact the woman’s family before announcing if they will release her name.
Emergency services were called to the scene just before 4.30pm following reports a Holden Astra and a Toyota HiLux had collided.
The woman, who was driving the Holden, died at the scene.
The driver of the Toyota, a 32-year-old man from Orange, was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to Orange Health Service in a serious but stable condition. He remained in a stable condition on Thursday.
His passenger, a 63-year-old man also from Orange, was airlifted to Liverpool Hospital in a serious condition.
His condition was stable on Thursday afternoon and he has been transferred with serious injuries to Westmead Hospital.
The road was closed for several hours as police examined the scene. It was reopened about 9pm.
Officers attached to Canobolas Local Area Command have started inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the crash and anyone with information that may assist is being urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
A report will be prepared for the information of the coroner.
Wednesday’s fatal crash came less than two months after a woman died in a head-on collision between a car and a B-double on the Mitchell Highway between Bathurst and Orange.
The 49-year-old female driver of a silver sedan suffered critical injuries and died at the scene after the crash at Vittoria, about 20 kilometres west of Bathurst, on the Mitchell Highway at around 9am on August 8.
The driver of the B-double, a 43-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and was transported via road ambulance to Orange Base Hospital.
Police said the B-double driver was lucky not to have sustained serious injury as his truck hit a number of trees and ended up off the road in a paddock as he tried to avoid the collision.
Just over a week after that fatal crash, a 30-year-old driver was transported to hospital after his truck rolled at Vittoria at 1pm on August 16. The driver managed to get out of the truck.
