SYDNEY, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Two people have died and a third has been hospitalized in a critical condition following a collision between three vehicles on Australia's east coast on Saturday morning.
A police statement said that emergency services were called to the crash near the coastal town of Byron Bay, 150 km south of Brisbane and 620 km northeast of Sydney, around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Officers arrived and found that the drivers of two of the vehicles, a woman aged in her 50s and a man in his 60s, had died at the scene.
A woman in her 60s, who was a passenger in the vehicle driven by the man, was treated at the scene by ambulance paramedics before being airlifted to hospital in a critical condition.
The occupants of the third vehicle were uninjured.
Police established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the incident. ■