Northern Territory Police have confirmed six people, including a child, died when a Mitsubishi 4WD collided with a road train and exploded into flames near Pine Creek on Friday.
All six are said to have been passengers in the car, which investigators believe may have swerved into the path of the truck as it drove south along the Stuart Highway at about 4:15pm.
However, due to the nature of the collision they said it would take time for forensic experts to identify the dead, urging patience from the community while they continued to work. The driver and passenger of the truck managed to escape with non-life threatening injuries before being taken to Royal Darwin Hospital. Picture: Sierra Haigh
A local tour guide who was one of the first to arrive on the scene told NT News the Mitsubishi had become a"ball of fire" after the crash, helping to explain why authorities expected the identification process to take time.
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