VIC:Driver in 12-person crash tests positive

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-2011
VIC:Driver in 12-person crash tests positive

Investigations are continuing into a singe vehicle accident in Melbourne's northwest
that has left ten children injured.

Two adults and 10 children were crammed into a four-wheel-drive when it left the Western
Highway at Rockbank and rolled several times, at about five yesterday afternoon.

Police say the driver, a 34-year-old woman, was unlicensed and returned a positive
breath test at the crash scene.

They're now waiting for the results of blood alcohol analysis before interviewing the
woman later today.

All of the children, aged seven and under, were conveyed to hospital with injuries
including abdominal and possible fractures.

A man also in the car was arrested at the scene for being drunk in a public place.

AAP RTV bm/apm/sw

KEYWORD: CHILDREN (MELBOURNE)

� 2011 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.