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Drunk driver jailed for causing fatal collision
A 26-year-old Irish man will spend the next eight years in prison following a fatal collision which claimed the life of a 19-year-old man in Cobden last year.
Police investigate Timboon road death
A 65-year-old Panmure man has died in a single vehicle-crash at Timboon, in the region’s first road fatality for the year.
Motorcyclist dies in district crash
Police are investigating Colac Otway’s sixth road fatality of the year, the shire’s highest road deaths in a decade.
ROAD TRAUMA: Region records third road death in two weeks
A man has died in a single-vehicle crash at Carlisle River, continuing a horror start to the year on Colac district roads.
Road toll reinforces message
Eight people died in road crashes across the Colac Otway, Corangamite and Surf Coast shires in 2021.
Road fatality and chemical leak keep emergency crews busy
Colac and district emergency services crews have had a busy weekend, with a traffic fatality near Birregurra and a chemical leak at Apollo Bay.
Tourist traffic increase causes more concerns
“Obviously in Australia it takes a fatality to bring the reality of such a situation to realisation, sadly.”
