UPDATED 7pm: A woman, believed to be an overseas tourist, has died following a single-vehicle crash near Scotts Creek on Tuesday afternoon.
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Police say the woman was a passenger in the rear seat of the vehicle that left the road and collided with a tree near the Timboon-Colac Road’s intersection with Williams Road just after 3pm.
Another female passenger and male driver have both been transported to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
EARLIER: A person has died in a crash this afternoon on the Timboon-Colac Road near Scotts Creek.
A woman in her twenties was also seriously injured in the accident and has been flown by air ambulance to the Alfred hospital in Melbourne in a serious but stable condition.
An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson also said a man in his twenties suffered no obvious injuries in the accident but was taken by road ambulance to Warrnambool Base Hospital.
The accident, near the Timboon-Colac Road’s intersection with Williams Road, occurred just after 3pm when the vehicle collided with a tree.
The spokesperson said no details about the deceased person were yet available.
Corangamite councillor Simon Illingworth said nearby residents had told him the accident occurred near the spot where a truck crashed last year and the driver escaped serious injury,
Cr Illingworth said the road had no shoulders and was heavily treed on both sides.
Truck drivers had told him their vehicles experienced a “double bounce” on the road in the area, making it difficult to control their vehicles, he said.
The road was part of the north-south link used by many international tourists returning from visiting the 12 Apostles, Cr Illingworth said.
It needed to be upgraded because the international tourists were on the “general purpose” road with trucks, school buses and local drivers.
“It’s a deadly mix,” Cr Illingworth said.