Police at Narooma have confirmed all involved in Saturday’s horror smash on the Princes Highway north of Tilba were foreign visitors.
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Adding to the tragedy was that all involved were under the age of 20, including the 19-year-old female driver of the smaller Toyota Corolla sedan, who was killed, and her 19-year-old passenger, who today remained in a critical condition in Canberra Hospital.
The nationalities of the deceased driver and her passenger are not known.
All four occupants in the other vehicle, an older model Toyota Land Cruiser, were German nationals and only one was admitted to hospital.
A spokeswoman for NSW Health said the female teenager from Bavaria in Germany suffered a cracked sternum and was currently in the Bega Regional Hospital’s surgery ward in a stable condition.
Initial investigations suggested a Toyota Corolla and a Toyota Land Cruiser crashed head-on on the Princes Highway just south of Brushgrove Lane, where the northbound lane widens into a passing lane, at about 1pm.
The site of the collision in the southbound lane can be clearly seen on what is a newly upgraded section of the highway, known as the Victoria Creek bypass.
Narooma Police are urging all drivers to be cautious on the highway and for visiting and local drivers to be alert and to get plenty of rest before driving.
This is the second serious accident on the Princes Highway in the Tilba area over the holiday period, as a Victorian visitor lost control of his Subaru wagon 200 metres south of the Bermagui turn-off on December 30, crashing into an embankment, trapping his female passenger until she could be removed by rescue squads.
The female passenger was flown to Canberra Hospital with serious injuries, while the male driver and a child passenger in the rear were taken to Bega Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.