Two people have died after a car crashed into a power pole in Matraville in Sydney’s east.
Police were called to the intersection of Botany Road and Bumborah Point Road, where they found a vehicle had rolled and caught on fire.
News Corp reports the car was believed to have been driven by a P-plater and that police are investigating the possibility the vehicle was racing before the crash.
The incident, which occurred about 10.30pm on Saturday, came hours after two people were killed in separate incidents on New South Wales roads.
A man died following a motorcycle crash on the Oxley Highway in northern NSW just hours after a separate incident on the same stretch of highway.
Police and emergency services were called to Mount Seaview, 80km west of Port Macquarie, following reports of a crash about 2pm but the 51-year-old rider died at the scene.
Earlier, a woman was killed in a single-vehicle accident in Wee Waa.
Police and emergency services were called to Wee Waa Road, 20km north of Narrabri, about 1.20pm following reports a car had crashed into a tree.
A 27-year-old woman died at the scene.
At Bretti, north of Gloucester, a truck driver was also trapped for four hours after the B-double semi-trailer he was driving overturned on Saturday night. The 46-year-old was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition, a Westpac Rescue Helicopter spokesperson said.
Also on Saturday, a woman was hit by an alleged unlicensed drunk driver while walking on a footpath with her partner and baby at Lethbridge Park in Sydney’s west, NSW police said. She was taken to Westmead Hospital with a fractured leg, while her partner and child escaped injury.
The 61-year-old driver allegedly returned a reading of 0.199 and he will appear in Parramatta local court on Sunday.