Police are calling on the public for assistance after a body was found in a burnt-out car in southern New South Wales.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called about 9:30am on Saturday, after a burnt-out utility was found just off Kolkilbertoo Road at Barellan, about 50 kilometres east of Griffith.<\/p>\n
NSW Ambulance attended the scene, but paramedics were unable to assist the driver, who was found deceased inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said officers believe the vehicle left the road before crashing and catching fire.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination will be carried out to help identify the victim and confirm the cause of death.<\/p>\n
Police are calling on anyone who has information about the incident to call Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, police were responding to another fatality at Burcher in the northern Riverina.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 6am, emergency services were called to Burcher Road after a passing motorist noticed a ute had left the road and struck a large gum tree.<\/p>\n
The driver, believed to be a local 56-year-old man, died at the scene.<\/p>\n
A report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n
The fatalities come as the NSW road toll exceeds the 2024 statistics.<\/p>\n
According to the latest NSW government data, 296 people have died on NSW roads in 2025, 41 more compared to the same time last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are calling on the public for assistance after a body was found in a burnt-out car in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,10470,44,57808,4277,62271,92515,84904],"class_list":["post-257024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal-crash","tag-news","tag-nsw-ambulance","tag-nsw-police","tag-road-toll","tag-road-trauma","tag-traffic-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}