A five-year-old boy has died and a teenage girl is fighting for her life after a car crash in Australia involving an emu. After a vehicle collided with the flightless bird, a pile-up occurred – Australian media spoke of a “horror crash”.
The accident occurred Sunday near the town of Nangwarry in South Australia state, when a vehicle collided with the large flightless birds on the Riddoch Highway, 9News reported, citing police.
In this article you can see the scene of the accident:
Four other people were injured
Because what followed was a deadly chain reaction: a car behind braked sharply to avoid a collision – after which a pickup truck rammed into it at full speed, it was said. According to the information, the dead boy and the injured girl were in the vehicle that had to brake. Four other people were treated in hospital with minor injuries. The police have started an investigation into the exact cause of the accident.
The flightless birds live only in Australia and are the second largest flightless birds in the world. They can reach a height of up to 1.90 meters. The animals often take long walks in search of suitable feeding areas and are also extremely fast: emus can run at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour.
Such tragic accidents involving emus are rare
It is estimated that between 630,000 and 725,000 emus remain today. Their survival is mainly threatened by the loss of their natural habitat and by traffic accidents. But usually it’s the emus that die, not the people. Only rarely does a collision end as tragically for people as in South Australia.
Source: Krone
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