NSW:Pair trapped in car near burning tanker

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2010
NSW:Pair trapped in car near burning tanker

Two people are trapped in a car underneath fallen power lines .. about 100 metres from
where a large petrol tanker is burning on the Pacific Highway .. near Ballina in northern
New South Wales.

Fire Brigade Superintendent IAN KRIMMER says the pair are safe .. but cannot be removed
until power has been cut off.

The driver of the overturned petrol tanker .. containing 40-thousand litres of fuel
.. has not been accounted for.

The highway remains closed and fire crews have established a one-kilometre exclusion
zone from the scene at Tintenbar .. about 10km north of Ballina.

Motorists have been told to use an alternative route to the Pacific Highway.

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