NSW: One dead, another critical after Pacific Highway crash

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2004
NSW: One dead, another critical after Pacific Highway crash

SYDNEY, Feb 28 AAP - A young man died and another was in a critical condition early
today after their car spun across oncoming lanes of the mid-north NSW Pacific Highway
and landed in a creek.

Police said the 18-year-old driver lost control of the car heading north on the Pacific
Highway, near Gateshead, south of Newcastle around 1.45am (AEDT).

Three of the four people inside the car were thrown from the vehicle, with the car
finishing up in a creek on the opposite side of the highway, police said.

The driver, a resident of the …