<\/b>A man has been charged following investigations into a collision between a motorbike and utility in the Riverina Region in January.<\/p>\n
About 10.30am on Sunday 25 January 2015, a motorbike and Nissan Patrol were driving in opposite directions on Muttama Road, Coolac, when they allegedly collided.<\/p>\n
The rider, a 52-year-old man, and the pillion passenger, a 47-year-old woman, both died at the location.<\/p>\n
The Nissan caught fire and was extinguished by NSW Fire & Rescue.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were contacted and officers from Traffic and Highway Patrol and Cootamundra Local Area Commands attended the scene and commenced an investigation.<\/p>\n
The driver of the utility, a 60-year-old man, was uninjured and taken to Gundagai Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.<\/p>\n
A crime scene was established and examined by the Southern Crime Scene Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n
Following investigations, Cootamundra detectives served a Future Service Court Attendance Notice on the 60-year-old man yesterday (Tuesday 7 July 2015).<\/p>\n
He was charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death and two counts of negligent driving causing death.<\/p>\n
The man is due to appear before Cootamundra Local Court on Monday 7 September 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged following investigations into a collision between a motorbike and utility in the Riverina Region in January. About 10.30am on Sunday 25 January 2015, a motorbike and Nissan Patrol were driving in opposite directions on Muttama Road, Coolac, when they allegedly collided. The rider, a 52-year-old man, and the pillion passenger, … Continue reading “Man charged following double motor vehicle fatality – Coolac”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}