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Jun212005

Break Out the Mantillas

DateTuesday, June 21, 2005 at 10:48AM

SUV kills Wombat; Tree Takes Revenge

From the Daily Telegraph:

TWO Melbourne construction workers have escaped uninjured from a bizarre crash in Victoria that would have done Hollywood's finest stuntmen proud.

The pair were in a twin cab utility when they struck a wombat on the Betka Road, south of the national park resort town of Mallacoota, 500km east of Melbourne, about 7am (AEST) today. Senior Constable Mark Tregallas of Mallacoota police said the car struck concrete edging on a narrow one-lane bridge, ploughed through the bridge railing and landed in a tree about seven metres above a creek.

The utility teetered for a moment, then fell into more than a metre of water.

Although they are not certain, the men believe the utility overturned in mid-air before it landed in the tree.

The wombat did not survive but the men were "a bit wet and cold but without a scratch on them", Sen-Constable Tregallas said.

Perhaps when they get done with the DNA testing on the roadkill, we'll have a state funeral to look forward to.  BTW, in Aussie, a "ute" isn't an Indian, it's a sport utility vehicle. 

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