Vic: One dead, two critical after motorcycles collide
07 Jan 2009 7:16 PM
A man is dead and two people have been critically injured in an accident involving two motorcycles .. on a notorious section of the Maroondah Highway east of Melbourne.
Police say the motorcycles collided head-on about three this afternoon (AEDT) .. on the Black Spur at Fernshaw .. between Healesville and Narbethong.
A 37-year-old Mooroolbark man died at the scene.
His passenger .. a 34-year-old Mooroolbark woman .. has been airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The rider of the other motorbike .. a man in his 30s from Ivanhoe .. has been taken to the Maroondah Hospital in a critical condition.
The fatality's taken Victoria's annual road toll to 11 .. four more than at the same time last year.
