Police are calling on the public for assistance after a body was found in a burnt-out car in southern New South Wales.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called about 9:30am on Saturday, after a burnt-out utility was found just off Kolkilbertoo Road at Barellan, about 50 kilometres east of Griffith.<\/p>\n
NSW Ambulance attended the scene, but paramedics were unable to assist the driver, who was found deceased inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said officers believe the vehicle left the road before crashing and catching fire.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination will be carried out to help identify the victim and confirm the cause of death.<\/p>\n
Police are calling on anyone who has information about the incident to call Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, police were responding to another fatality at Burcher in the northern Riverina.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 6am, emergency services were called to Burcher Road after a passing motorist noticed a ute had left the road and struck a large gum tree.<\/p>\n
The driver, believed to be a local 56-year-old man, died at the scene.<\/p>\n
A report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n
The fatalities come as the NSW road toll exceeds the 2024 statistics.<\/p>\n
According to the latest NSW government data, 296 people have died on NSW roads in 2025, 41 more compared to the same time last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are calling on the public for assistance after a body was found in a burnt-out car in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,12428,50,22234,9309,39903,5239,16476],"class_list":{"0":"post-349765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nsw-ambulance","12":"tag-nsw-police","13":"tag-road-toll","14":"tag-road-trauma","15":"tag-traffic-accidents"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478732197529208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}