Update: Man arrested after fatal crash at Mannum

About Just after 11am on Friday 16 October, emergency services were called to Mannum Road at Mannum, following a collision involving a Ssangyong utility and a truck.

The driver of the utility, a 76-year-old local man, sadly died at the scene. His passenger, a 72-year-old local woman, was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the truck, a 35-year-old man from Salisbury, was not injured.

Major Crash Investigators attended the scene and are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.

On Friday 16 October, the driver of the truck was arrested. He was charged with cause death by dangerous driving and cause harm by dangerous driving issued with an immediate loss of licence notice until further order.

He was bailed to appear in the Murray Bridge Magistrates Court on Tuesday 15 December.

The mans death is the 88^th life lost on South Australian roads this year.

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