Article: SA: Car travelling 200pkh hits tree, kills four people aboard


AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2004
SA: Car travelling 200pkh hits tree, kills four people aboard

ADELAIDE, Aug 6 AAP - Four people are dead after a high-powered Commodore travelling
at about 200kph became airborne and crashed into a tree, three metres above the ground.

The four dead - men aged 30 and 36 and women aged 21 and 23 - were travelling in the
car which crashed into a tree near the South Australian mid-north city of Port Pirie about
5.15pm (CST) yesterday, police said.

Police today criticised the speed at which the borrowed, late-model SS Holden Commodore
was travelling.

"The vehicle slid sideways, hit a tree stump, rolled, then became airborne and collided
with a very ...

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