{"id":14887,"date":"2026-05-20T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/14887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:40:10","slug":"one-dead-after-multi-vehicle-crash-near-victorian-new-south-wales-border-town-of-mildura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/14887\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after multi-vehicle crash near Victorian-New South Wales border town of Mildura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has died after a multi-vehicle crash in south-west New South Wales today, near the Victorian border town of Mildura. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the intersection of Dansons Road and the Sturt Highway at Trentham Cliffs around10 kilometres from Mildura, just after 8:20am today after reports of a multi-vehicle collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NSW Police said a van had rear-ended a vehicle, causing the vehicle to collide with a B-double truck travelling the opposite way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance Victoria treated a man in his 40s, but he died at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A driver was taken to Mildura Base Public Hospital for mandatory testing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no other injuries reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the incident and a report will be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Road closed barriers, black and yellow and witch's hat, with a road closed ahead sign. A white ute parked on the other side.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9cc21c389be4c09877b5af60fb3e0371.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The Sturt Highway remains closed in both directions between Buronga and Euston. (ABC News: Wade Stephens)<\/p>\n<p>Highway closed<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a separate incident earlier today, a 22-year-old man escaped injuries after a truck rollover in Trentham Cliffs about 5:30am, just kilometres away from the multi-vehicle collision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recovery operation is still ongoing to remove the truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the Sturt Highway remains closed in both direction and will remain closed for a considerable amount of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to avoid the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after a multi-vehicle crash in south-west New South Wales today, near the Victorian border&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,1991,4860,2717,14891,15118,15120,15119,68],"class_list":["post-14887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-road-crash","tag-road-incident","tag-sturt-highway","tag-truck","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}