A woman has been charged over a fatal in the Illawarra region last month.
About 7.15pm on Friday 5 March 2021, emergency services responded to reports a Holden Statesman and a Nissan Juke, both travelling south, collided on the M1 Princes Highway, near the Masters Road off-ramp at Mount St Thomas.
Following the initial crash, the Statesman hit a median strip before crashing into a tree.
The driver, a 47-year-old woman, died at the scene.
Her three passengers – a 15-year-old girl and two boys, aged five and 10 – were air lifted to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead suffering serious injuries.
The Nissan driver, a 29-year-old woman, and her passenger, a 32-year-old man, were uninjured. The driver was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing.