AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-2010
VIC:Police fail to identify dead driver
MELBOURNE, Dec 9 AAP - Police say a driver killed in a high-speed crash in Melbourne
overnight is not the man they thought he was after discovering the licence he held belonged
to someone else.
Police are yet to formally identify the man killed at Burwood East when his car swerved,
lost control, mounted a median strip and smashed into a pole on the Burwood Highway about
12.30am (AEDT).
Sergeant Wayne Elston, of the Nunawading Highway Patrol, told ABC radio earlier on
Thursday that the driver was believed to have had a Chinese licence but was still on Victorian
L-plates and his passenger also did not have a full licence.
Witnesses claim two cars were travelling at high speed, one behind the other.
A man believed to be in his 20s died at the scene.
A second man in the car was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
Police found a second car in the vicinity of the crash and a man is assisting police
with their inquiries.
Police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen two cars travelling at high
speeds on the Burwood Highway at that time.
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