2 civilians were killed and 1 is critical from a crash where a responding fire apparatus struck them in an intersection. One man who was a passenger in the back was killed instantly when the vehicle was crushed under the cabin of the Airservices Australia fire apparatus and a woman in the front passenger seat was conscious in the crushed vehicle for more than an hour, but died after she arrived at hospital. Her husband, who was driving the vehicle, is fighting for his life with serious head and spinal injuries.
Amazingly a third man, climbed out of the back seat uninjured.
The Darwin Airport fire apparatus had been requested for foam as back-up by Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service for a major industrial fire at the Wyuna Cold Stores facility.
