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Stephen George Russell on trial in Tamworth District Court after double-fatal crash on Oxley Highway near Walcha in 2019

Anna Falkenmire
Updated March 10 2022 - 7:58pm, first published February 23 2022 - 5:00am
TRIAL: The Crown has opened its case in court against a man accused of causing a double-fatal crash by overloading a caravan. Photo: File
TRIAL: The Crown has opened its case in court against a man accused of causing a double-fatal crash by overloading a caravan. Photo: File

A CARAVAN was allegedly "grossly overloaded" when the four-wheel-drive towing it smashed into a tree north of Tamworth in 2019, killing two passengers and seriously hurting another, a trial heard on its opening day.

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Anna Falkenmire

Police and crime reporter at the Newcastle Herald.

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