Two drivers are dead and a woman is fighting for her life after a three-vehicle crash at Suffolk Park, just south of Byron Bay, this morning.
Emergency services were called to Broken Head Road about 10.30am on Saturday, 31 October, after reports of the crash.
When officers from Tweed/Byron Police District arrived, they found the driver of one car, believed to be a woman in her 50s, and the driver of a second car, a man believed to be in his 60s, had died at the scene.
Neither has yet been formally identified.
A passenger in the second car, a woman in her 60s, was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics.
She was then airlifted to Gold Coast University Hospital in a critical condition.
The people in the third vehicle escaped without injury.
Police have set up a crime scene and started an investigation into what happened.
A report will be prepared for the Coroner.
Broken Head Road is closed between Beech Drive and Broken Head Reserve Road, with diversions in place.
Motorists are urged to avoid the area and check livetraffic.com for updates.
Anyone with information or dashcam footage is urged to contact Tweed/Byron police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or at https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is managed on a confidential basis.
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