A person has been charged with homicide after allegedly crashing his ute right into a automobile, killing his estranged spouse and injuring two youngsters, within the central west city of Molong on June 9.
Kristy Armstrong, 36, died on the scene of the crash on Speedy Road, and the kids, aged eight and 11, had been handled on the scene and brought to hospital with minor accidents.
Kristy Armstrong was killed in a two-vehicle crash at Molong.Credit score: Fb
Troy Armstrong, the 35-year-old driver of the ute, was lower from the wreckage of his white ute by rescue personnel and flown to Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital in a crucial situation.
“Following in depth inquiries, investigators attended Royal North Shore Hospital, the place they charged a 35-year-old man with homicide, and two counts of tried homicide,” police mentioned on Saturday morning.
Witnesses on the crash scene, on the partly sealed Speedy Road simply north of Molong township, mentioned Ms Armstrong’s inexperienced sedan was in a area alongside the highway at about 3.40pm on Friday, June 9.
“I went all the way down to see if I might help with Kristy,” Cabonne Shire Council Mayor Kevin Beatty informed the Herald after the crash.
Beatty mentioned that at the same time as a former police officer, such scenes are “all the time exhausting”.
“The group is sort of shocked,” he mentioned. “The lack of a life in a small group is de facto taken very exhausting.”
Armstrong remained in hospital on Saturday. His case was talked about at Parramatta Bail Court docket on Saturday and is subsequent listed for a preliminary listening to at Orange Native Court docket on July 11.
