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Man charged over crash

By Ivy Jensen

MAJOR Collision Investigation Unit detectives charged a man on Tuesday, February 19 following a fatal collision that killed a Heathcote woman at Graytown last year.

The collision occurred on July 13 on Heathcote-Nagambie Rd, where a ute and SUV travelling in opposite directions collided around a bend about 2.30pm.

A 55-year-old Heathcote woman, who was travelling in the SUV, died at the scene.

Two other women were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Detectives charged the driver of the ute, a 60-year-old Bendigo man, with dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing serious injury.

He appeared at the Bendigo Magistrates’ Court the same day as he was charged.