An 11-year-old Penrith boy, Max McGregor, has died after a B-double struck a utility then rolled into a house on the Pacific Highway at Urunga yesterday.
The crash happened about 5am, just south of the Kalang River bridge, about 27km south of Coffs Harbour, NSW.
It appears a B-double and a utility have collided; the truck has then struck the house, killing the boy asleep in his bedroom.
The driver of the ute, 37-year-old Nambucca Heads man, David Levett, also died at the scene.
The young boy’s parents and his brother, and two people from the house next door, escaped with shock and minor injuries. They have been taken to Coffs Harbour Hospital.
The driver of the truck, a 51-year-old man from Queensland, and his male passenger, were also taken to Coffs Harbour Hospital.
Police from Urunga and Coffs Harbour, NSW Ambulance Paramedics, SES volunteers, Rescue and officers from the Crash Investigation Unit responded to the incident.
Locals are calling for improvements to the notoriously dangerous road while police investigate the cause of the accident.
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