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A man has died after a head-on crash between an Audi car and a truck on the exit ramp of Gungahlin Drive to Barton Highway.
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ACT police are yet to identify the driver of the silver Audi, who is said to have died “on the way to the hospital, or at the hospital”.
Investigators believe the man was driving up the exit ramp in the wrong direction before crashing into the white truck exiting the main road.
The impact appeared to have flipped the truck, and destroyed the Audi which needed to be cut open by firefighters to rescue the trapped driver.
Detective Acting Superintendent of the north district, Anthony Brown, said the truck driver was able to free himself from the wreckage but was being treated in hospital for injuries to “extremities”.
“He [truck driver] was quite shaken up,” the acting superintendent said.
He said the silver Audi was involved in a police pursuit in Belconnen about 10.20am on Friday which was later called off.
Police said they suspect the driver of the Audi was involved in “a number of incidents” on Friday, including an alleged armed burglary reported at a money exchange business in Dickson at about 12.04pm, shortly before the head-on crash in Kaleen.
Contents from both vehicles had spilled on to grass while debris from the crushed vehicles appeared to be blocking a section of the ramp.
Police said the off-ramp will remain closed for “a number of hours”.
Acting Superintendent Brown has urged anyone with information related to the incident to contact police.
“We’ll continue to investigate both the criminal aspects of this and the collision, and we’ll present a report to the coroner,” he said.
Police are expected to provide more information about the matter on Friday evening.
The crash occurred two days after another man died on a rural ACT road in a fatal crash between his motorcycle and another car.
The unidentified driver of the Audi is the ninth road death in the ACT in 2025.
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