Monaro Highway southbound near Hume will be closed for many hours after a fatal collision - The Canberra Times

One person is dead and another in hospital after a high-speed collision southbound on the Monaro Highway around 1.20am on Monday. It appears that one of the cars involved had vaulted the safety barrier, rolled over and hit a tree. Both cars were extensively damaged and one of the drivers is understood to have died at the scene. It is not known at this time what caused the crash, which appears to have involved two cars travelling south on a straight section of roadway at high speed. Investigators were expected to remain on the scene for many hours, with protective screens called in around 4.30am to shield the body from public view. In the early hours of Monday morning, crash investigators also called for light towers to be set up so as to better examine the scene. The incident occurred about 400 metres south of the Tralee Street intersection with the Monaro Highway. Both southbound lanes of the highway are expected to remain closed until around lunchtime on Monday. Southbound traffic will be requested to divert from the highway at Tralee Street, Hume. Northbound traffic is unaffected. The fatality is the second on the Monaro Highway this year and the fourth for the ACT in 2021. A Canberra was also killed in a major crash in South Australia over the weekend. READ MORE: The 23-year-old ACT man was driving a Ford utility that collided with a B-double truck on the Stuart Highway at Wirraminna, in northern South Australia, about 12.15pm on Saturday. South Australia Police said both vehicles caught fire after the impact. MORE TO COME Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can continue to access our trusted content:

One person is dead and another in hospital after a high-speed collision southbound on the Monaro Highway around 1.20am on Monday.

It appears that one of the cars involved had vaulted the safety barrier, rolled over and hit a tree. Both cars were extensively damaged and one of the drivers is understood to have died at the scene.

It is not known at this time what caused the crash, which appears to have involved two cars travelling south on a straight section of roadway at high speed.

Investigators were expected to remain on the scene for many hours, with protective screens called in around 4.30am to shield the body from public view.

In the early hours of Monday morning, crash investigators also called for light towers to be set up so as to better examine the scene.

The incident occurred about 400 metres south of the Tralee Street intersection with the Monaro Highway.

Both southbound lanes of the highway are expected to remain closed until around lunchtime on Monday.

Southbound traffic will be requested to divert from the highway at Tralee Street, Hume. Northbound traffic is unaffected.

A police vehicle delivers portable light towers to the Monaro Highway crash scene early on Monday morning. Picture: Peter Brewer

The fatality is the second on the Monaro Highway this year and the fourth for the ACT in 2021.

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The 23-year-old ACT man was driving a Ford utility that collided with a B-double truck on the Stuart Highway at Wirraminna, in northern South Australia, about 12.15pm on Saturday.

South Australia Police said both vehicles caught fire after the impact.

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