A man has been charged after two women were killed in a crash involving a semi-trailer in Victoria\u2019s west on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The semi-trailer was travelling north along the Western Highway near Laharum, about 40 kilometres south of Horsham, when it crashed into the rear of a Holden sedan turning into a rest stop about 12.20pm, Victoria Police allege.<\/p>\n
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The scene of the crash near Horsham on Tuesday that left two women dead. <\/span>Credit:<\/span>Nine News <\/cite><\/p>\n The car was allegedly pushed into oncoming traffic and collided with the passenger side of another vehicle, a Toyota sedan, which was travelling in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n The female driver, a 71-year-old from Horsham, of the oncoming car and the female passenger, 42 from Ararat, of the turning car died at the scene. The 36-year-old male driver of the turning vehicle, from Black Range, sustained life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n He was flown to Royal Melbourne Hospital, where police said he remains in a critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n The driver of the truck, a 48-year-old Dartmoor man who was uninjured in the crash, was arrested at the scene on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Emergency crews were called to the scene about 12.20pm on Tuesday. <\/span>Credit:<\/span>Nine News <\/cite><\/p>\n On Wednesday afternoon, police said he had since been charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death, and one count of dangerous driving causing serious injury.<\/p>\n He was bailed to face Horsham Magistrates\u2019 Court on January 31, 2022.<\/p>\n The Western Highway was closed for most of Tuesday as detectives from the major collision investigation unit examined the crash scene.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s fatalities took the 2021 death toll on Victoria\u2019s roads to 161.<\/p>\n Laharum is nearly 300 kilometres west north-west of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n