A woman has died in hospital after being involved in a head-on crash with a man believed to have been fleeing after stabbing his partner.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old woman, from Winkleigh in Tasmania’s north, was driving on the West Tamar Highway at Legana on Friday afternoon when the collision occurred.<\/p>\n
The man, a 42-year-old from Western Australia, died at the scene, while the woman was taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
Tasmania Police released a statement on Sunday evening confirming the woman had died in hospital.<\/p>\n
Both of those killed in the crash were the sole occupants of their vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police say the man was also the perpetrator of a “serious wounding incident” at a house in Exeter shortly before the crash.<\/p>\n
In that incident, a woman in her 40s was stabbed multiple times by a man she had been in a relationship with for about six months.<\/p>\n
Family and domestic violence support services:<\/p>\n
If you need help immediately, call emergency services on Triple Zero.<\/p>\n
She was subsequently taken to Launceston General Hospital, where she remains in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
The couple, from Perth in Western Australia, were visiting Tasmania and staying at a relative’s house in Exeter after arriving in the state on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police said two of the woman’s children were also at the house at the time of the stabbing, but that they were not direct witnesses.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the stabbing, police received a report that the vehicle the man had fled in had been driving erratically and involved in the collision on the West Tamar Highway.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with the loved ones of both women, and all those affected by these incidents,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Police are appealing for anyone with dash-cam footage of a blue Skoda travelling on the West Tamar Highway in the lead-up to the crash to reach out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died in hospital after being involved in a head-on crash with a man believed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,4841,61099,63764,63763,21701,63765,63762,63761,63766],"class_list":["post-58813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-domestic-violence","tag-exeter","tag-legana-crash","tag-man-fleeing-stabbing","tag-royal-hobart-hospital","tag-stabbing-tasmania","tag-tasmania-crash","tag-woman-crash","tag-woman-injured-in-tasmania-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813","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=58813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}