A 51-year-old woman has died after a car crashed into a creek in South Australia’s South East this morning.

  • A South East woman died at the scene of the crash
  • The car had been travelling along South Australia’s Princes Highway before it left the road
  • Major crash investigators remained at the scene on Saturday afternoon

Emergency service crews were called to the intersection of the Princes Highway and Southern Ports Highway at Kingston just after 7:30am, where they found a car had left the road, driven through a reserve and crashed into Maria Creek.
SA Police officers and major crash investigators remained at the scene on Saturday afternoon.
In a statement, SA Police said the Toyota sedan was travelling west along the Princes Highway when it crashed.
The 51-year-old South East woman, who was a rear passenger in the car, died at the scene.
The car’s driver, a 53-year-old woman, and front passenger, a 21-year-old woman, were taken to the Kingston Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Both women  also from the South East  were later moved to the Mount Gambier Hospital for treatment.
The fatality takes South Australia’s road toll to 55 in 2021, compared with 48 at the same time last year.

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