Crashes mar season

By Nicole Williams
THE festive season took a tragic turn after two women were killed on Casey’s roads between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
A Christmas Day collision took the life of a 66-year-old woman in Narre Warren South.
The woman was a passenger in the vehicle, which is believed to have been travelling on Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road when it lost control and collided with a brick fence at about 2am.
The car came to rest on its roof, trapping the driver for over an hour.
The three other occupants were taken to hospital, one with serious injuries.
The Major Collision Investigation Unit was investigating the accident.
In another fatality, a 44-year-old woman was killed in a collision at Doveton at 12.30am on New Year’s Eve.
She was travelling inbound on the Monash Freeway when her car ran off the road and on to a grass section on the wrong side of a guard rail.
The vehicle became airborne before striking the Heatherton Road overpass.
It came to rest on the embankment under the bridge and caught fire.
The woman was thrown from the vehicle on impact.
From 17 December to 30 December last year, police caught 195 speeding drivers in Casey, 13 drivers with a blood alcohol reading over the legal limit and 27 disqualified or unlicensed drivers.
The fatalities took the Victorian Christmas road toll on New Year’s Eve to six.