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Two dead, driver on charges after three-car crash
A 51-year-old man has been refused bail after being charged over the death of two people in a three-car crash.
April 1, 2024
Two people are dead and a man has been charged following a three-car crash involving a Tesla in South Australia.
A man, 62, and a woman, 54, who were in a Ford sedan, died at the scene on Sunday after the collision in Penola about 5.15pm.
Another man, 51, who was driving a Ford ute, was taken to hospital with minor injuries after the crash at the town in the wine growing region of Coonawarra, about 400km southeast of Adelaide.
A woman, 42, who was driving a Tesla, and her passenger, 69, were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Two other people in the vehicle were not injured in the crash on the Riddoch Highway and Three Mile Lane.
Police on Monday charged the 51-year-old man with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing harm by dangerous driving.
He was refused bail and is expected to appear in the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Twenty-three lives have been lost on SA roads this year.