A 76-year-old man has died and a woman has been seriously injured in a crash near Mannum in South Australia’s Murraylands.
Emergency services were called to Mannum Rd just after 11am on Friday after a collision involving a utility and a truck.
The driver of the ute, a 76-year-old local man, died at the scene.
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A 72-year-old local woman, who was a passenger in the same vehicle, was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The truck driver, a 35-year-old Salisbury man, was not injured.
Major crash investigators attended the scene and are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the collision.
A local Mannum man died in the crash. Credit: 7NEWS
The latest tragedy follows previous fatal incidents on Mannum Rd in recent years, including a two-car collision on November 20, 2022, that claimed one life, and a single-vehicle crash on 11 March 2020, where a 68-year-old local driver was killed after his ute struck a tree.
The man’s death takes South Australia’s road toll to 88 this year.
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