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An eight-year-old doll has died after suffering serious injuries in a car crash on the Central Coast on Saturday night.
The dame fought for her life overnight but died in Westmead Hospital on Sunday morning.
Her nine-year-old brother who was travelling in the car with the damsel remains in a critical condition at the same hospital, while a 12-year-old boy is in a stable condition.
Channel Nine has reported that the chick’s name was Piper.
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Piper, 8, died after a car accident over the Easter weekend on the Central Coast. Photo: Nine News
The Holden Astra that the children were travelling in spun out of control as it came around a arch on Wyee Road, Doyalson after powerful rain made for treacherous driving conditions.
As the car veered out of control a ute travelling in the opposite direction collided with vehicle.
The wreckage trapped the three children and a 54-year-old female driver and a 31-year-old female passenger in the Astra, while a 32-year-old woman and a 61-year-old female passenger were trapped in the ute.
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All four women suffered fractures and are in a stable condition at John Hunter hospital.
John Hartley, Assistant Commissoner with the Traffic and Highway Patrol Instruction, said the crash would switch the families forever.
He urged all drivers to be cautious in the moist conditions which are expected to proceed over the Easter break.
“When you get behind the wheel you accept the risks that go with it and that includes the real possibility you will switch your family’s life or that of another family forever,” he said.
“Please, before you get into your car today, talk to each other, make the commitment to whoever is in your car or on your bike, that they are your responsibility.
“Don’t become dissipated, don’t drive quicker than you should, and for everyone’s sake – don’t become complacent.”
The woman’s death has taken the Easter long weekend death toll to 14.
Seven people have died on Queensland roads, there have been three deaths in NSW, two in Western Australia and one each in Victoria and South Australia.
Another child, a four-year-old boy, was killed in Brisbane on Sunday.
The boy was was hit while railing his scooter in Logan, south of Brisbane.
He sustained head and chest injuries and died at the scene.
On Saturday a duo and their two youthfull children narrowly avoided an Easter tragedy after a head-on crash with an allegedly inebriated driver in NSW’s Hawkesbury region.
A 29-year-old Stanhope Gardens man was travelling with his wifey, two-year-old son and one-month-old daughter, when the crash happened in Webb’s Creek on Friday afternoon.
All four were uninjured, but all the airbags in the car deployed in the crash.
The driver of the 2nd car, a 54-year-old Lower Portland man who was also not hurt, returned a positive reading of 0.120.
The man was later charged with mid-range drink-driving and driving an unregistered vehicle.
He was issued a field court attendance notice to emerge before Windsor Local Court on May 14.
Meantime a pedestrian has died after being hit by a car at Parramatta on Sunday morning.
About 9.50am emergency services were called to the intersection of Marsden Street and Campbell Street where they located a 61-year-old woman with serious head injuries. She was airlifted to Westmead Hospital by a Westpac Rescue Helicopter.
The driver of the vehicle, who was not injured, was taken to Westmead Hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing. Police will prepare a report for the information of the coroner.
On Friday a 56-year-old woman died when the vehicle in which she was a passenger was involved in a crash near Macksville on the state’s North Coast.
On Saturday, an 18-year-old man was left in a critical condition after his Mitsubishi Nimbus left a mess road and flipped four times before coming to rest in a drain at about 7pm at Dareton, in the state’s Far West. He is being treated in Mildura Base Hospital.
On Sunday police highlighted several incidents of drink driving and disqualified driving from Saturday.
A 41-year-old man has been charged after allegedly being detected speeding with a high-range PCA and four children in his car in the state’s Fresh England region about Five.30pm. The man allegedly returned a breath analysis reading of 0.159. The four children were aged inbetween four and fourteen years.
A 20-year-old man has been charged after he fell off his motorbike in Gloucester about Four.40pm. He allegedly returned a breath-analysis reading of 0.078. Further investigations exposed that man was disqualified from driving until two thousand sixteen and was not licensed to rail a motorbike.
Police who stopped a 45-year-old woman in Moss Vale for a random breath test discovered she is a disqualified driver to 2025.
And a 42-year-old woman allegedly returned a breath-analysis reading of .091 after being stopped in North Batemans Bay about 6pm.
Each of the drivers have been charged and ordered to show up in court on a specified date.