Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing Glenn Weir stated the automobile was “obviously travelling at extremely high speed” down a really slim highway when the motive force misplaced management and smashed right into a tree.
The crash on Saturday morning at Bochara, 300km west of Melbourne, killed 4 and left only one sole survivor, a 17-year-old lady now preventing for her life in hospital.
The crash scene was so horrific that police stated it was too quickly to substantiate who was driving the automobile or what number of, if any, had been sporting seat belts. Police initially believed the 4 individuals killed have been all native teenage ladies, earlier than revising the small print right now.
The mangled purple station wagon was noticed by a passerby simply after 9am, having final been seen on CCTV footage leaving an area waterfall park eight hours earlier, round 1am.
“It could be the vehicle had been there for a long time,” Weir stated.
“We’re just hoping that the 17-year-old passenger who’s currently in hospital in a life-threatening condition can pull through so we can get some more detail of what actually occurred.”
Weir stated it was too quickly to substantiate who was driving the automobile or what number of, if any, had been sporting seat belts.
Weir described the Wannon-Nigretta Falls Road as “an English lane-type road where you have to sort of pull to the side to let other traffic come”, making it poorly suited to rushing vehicles.
Police stated two females and two males, who’re all but to be formally recognized, died on the scene.
It is believed the youngsters have been college students at Baimbridge College in Hamilton, however Weir would solely affirm they have been “certainly school age”.
Crash scene investigators had carried out painstaking work to establish victims and have been now making an attempt to ascertain what had occurred, Weir stated.
“It’s a traumatic scene, we have to be 100 per cent sure who’s who. We have to be 100 per cent sure who was sitting where… and we’ll use a whole range of forensic procedures to make sure that we’re absolutely certain who was in the vehicle.”
Speaking to Weekend Today, Southern Grampians Shire Council Mayor David Robertson described the incident as “horrific”.
“I think the community is still in shock,” he stated.
Wannon-Nigretta Falls Road is single-car nation highway, lined with purple gums, and is about 10km in size, Robertson stated.
The highway is used to entry well-liked Wannon and Nigretta Falls.
“There’s very little traffic on that road. There is three houses within about 9km,” Robertson stated.
“The (road) is reasonably straight. There’s a couple of nasty corners on it.”
Robertson stated the wreck may have been there for hours.
“They could have been there for quite a while and I think that is what the police are trying to put together – the details of the accident.”
The space remains to be cordoned off and can stay closed whereas detectives from the Major Collision Investigation Unit examine.
“There [are] five people involved in this and all their families and all their friends coming to terms with that, it’s going to hit the town really hard,” Sergeant Ryan Nelson stated.
“There’s a lot of people out there that want answers, and we want to give those people those answers.”
Bochara is a rural locality exterior of Hamilton.
Source: www.9news.com.au
